Recommend me a Detective Novel

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Dashiell Hammett
Raymond Chandler
and do we really need to keep talking? OK, then.
Walter Moseley.

I've read a number of the other big names. One or another of them might come in fourth place, but the other horses would already be back in the stable.

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If you like historical detective novels, maybe check out Paul Doherty's Egyptian stuff. Really well done imo.

Maybe look up James McEllroy's stuff if you haven't done so already.

Also, despite knowing this is kinda the opposite of the sort of what you asked... but John le Carre's A Call for the Dead is basically a detective story, only with a spy instead of a detective. And very good. Even if its fairly modern British...