Thanks for this video, Olly. We all hope you're enjoying the holiday season.

Hope you feel better soon! The Six Stories series does sound really good to me, adding that to my "want to read" list. I am a big fan of John D. MacDonald - love his Travis McGee books, I am currently working through that series. And I definitely need to read The Maltese Falcon. Enjoyed the vid! :)

Great !!!! I will def try reading at least 5 from this list next year !!!

Incredible to think that The Big Sleep was Chandler’s first novel. Close to perfect.

My top three mystery / crime writers are Michael Connelly, Philip Kerr and Henning Mankell. Kerr’s “Berlin Noir” is especially good as it is about a detective in Germany before, during and after World War 2. Great books.

I’ve read The Postman Always Rings Twice. It is good. I love your channel. I may need a storage unit for my TBR list. Get well soon.🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞

Thanks for touching it out through your cold… I am finally getting my voice back after mine. Another good video I have only heard of a few of them.

Great list! I haven't heard of most of these so you've given me some new books to explore 🤗

Donald Goines books are quick reads written so well. I loved black girl lost inner city hoodlum and dope fiend.

Interesting list that spans a lot of decades and shifts in styles. I read "The Butteryfly" by James M. Cain this week. If you're looking for GarbAugust material and need a short book... My favorite thriller of the year was "None Shall Sleep" by Ellie Marney. General disclaimer that it's not a good book but it's certainly a good time.

Interesting list with a lot for me to explore, thanks. My 2022 best crime read was 'A Line to Kill' by Anthony Horowitz. Great fun from an innovative mystery series with Anthony Horowitz himself as the sidekick to his detective. (Honourable mentions for 'White Corridor' by Christopher Fowler, a terrific installment in the Bryant & May series; and 'No Orchids for Miss Blandish' by James Hadley Chase, a very bleak noir.)

Off to lempsipland you go my friend, great show Olly.

I have seen both versions of Cape Fear with Robert Mitchum and DeNiro and enjoyed both very much. I never realized they were based on a novel. That will be going on my to read list. Thanks

I read _The Postman Always Rings Twice_ a few years ago, and read _The Maltese Falcon_ last month. Both were great.

I read The Postman Always Rings Twice a few years ago, the movie is also a noir film classic and worth seeing. I'm impressed with this list, it includes a number of bona fide classics, unfortunately I haven't gotten around to reading them but I am keen to read Cape Fear, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon and other Hammett novels, and the Ripley series. The best crime novel I read this year was In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes, this was not only the best crime novel but one of the best novels of any genre that I've read this year. I think I commented on this on a separate video, but anyone who enjoys noir fiction from the 1940s will love this psychological portrait of a serial killer in LA, the book is brilliant and it was also made into a classic film starring Humphrey Bogart.

My favorite mystery/crime I’ve read this year has been Still Life by Louise Penny. It’s the first in the Inspector Gamache series. Amazon just put out a series based on the book series called Three Pines.

Oh! I didn't know Cape Fear was a book! It's a great movie!! The Talented Mr. Ripley movie was really good too from what I remember - have not read that book either!

I’ve only read one on this list and I absolutely loved it. 👏🏻👏🏻 Great Top 10! Feel better book buddy. - 📚MJ

I love Dashiell Hammett. Red Harvest is my favorite of his books, but you can’t go wrong with any of them.

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Get well soon, Ollie!

Raymond Chandler talk about a classic!

My favourite book read of 2022 was seventeen by john brownlow. Fantastic read. It fed the imagination and really painted the picture as if you was watching it on a screen

My favorite crime book that I've read this year was either Dope or Claire Dewitt and The City of The Dead. Both are by Sara Gran. Claire Dewitt and The City of The Dead is the first of a trilogy and I enjoyed all three. Dope is a fantastic noir that takes place in the 1950's.

I really enjoyed The Talented Mr. Ripley. The Six Stories and Cape Fear are two I would like to read. 😊💙

Yea for Travis McGee and Sam Spade! The Heretic was pretty good too! Interesting top 10+.

That's a great top 10. I read The Big Sleep this year, but cant remember much about it. I liked it, just hasnt stuck in my mind for some reason. His plots do seem a little convoluted, maybe thats the reason.

My copy of He Died with His Eyes Open just arrived today and I was surprised how thin it is - which makes a me happy. The modern push for high word counts can be a real detriment to crime fiction. Too much padding. Have you read the Parker series by Richard Stark, aka Donald Westlake?

How do you know what is on my bookshelves? I have four, yes 4 of your highlighted books this week. The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cape Fear, and The Big Sleep. All excellent esp Mr. Ripley. All of these were made into movies which were almost as good as the novels. Your taste is impeccable.

The audiobook version of A Rage in Harlem narrated by Samuel L. Jackson was very entertaining. How close are the novel and Robert DeNiro film versions of Cape Fear? I love that movie. Robert DeNiro was brilliantly menacing, terrifying.

Hi, Olly - Sorry to hear about the cold - do vitamin c. Don't know if it helps, but it always makes me feel like I'm trying my best, and after all, what's bad about orange juice? I haven't seen all your videos yet and I apologize if I overlooked this, but I've wondered if you've run into a crime series by a guy named Lawrence Block, featuring a detective he calls Matthew Scudder. They're set in New York and start well back in its dingier, more obviously crime-ridden days. Scudder is an alcoholic ex-cop living in a one room "apartment" in Hell's Kitchen, and he does "favors" for people - looking into mysteries for them. There's a lot of atmosphere, a very strong sense of place and time, considerable brutality, interesting plotting and storylines - it's an interesting and well written series in which the main recurring characters really evolve over time (not always the case with series like this). The city, by the way, is almost a character a lot of the time. Block has a couple other series, but I haven't liked them as well. He's also done short stories and some good stand-alones. So if you haven't run into him before and you're looking for a project once Patricia Highsmith is done ...

It's a bit surprising that Thomas Harris's books do not make these lists. Maybe they are overshadowed by the high quality of the adapted films. 'Silence of Lambs' and 'Red Dragon'. Have you read any James Ellroy for hard crime? But re. Ellroy one shouldn't bother with his early stuff. Start with the 'L.A. Quartet", and then the 'American Trilogy".

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