Detective Fiction

Besides Sherlock Holmes what are some good detective stories?

I really liked Paul Auster's New York Trilogy.

George Simenon - The Maigret Novels. Maigret in New York is a good one.

Leo Malet - The Nestor Burma Novels. I read The Rats of Montsouris.

Jerome Charyn - The Isaac Quadrilogy.

Dashielle Hammett - The Maltese Falcon.

Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep

Jean Claude Izzo - The Marseilles Trilogy

Michael Chabon - The Final Solution

Jonathan Latimer - The Lady in the Morgue

Jim Thompson - Pop. 1280. Bertrand Tavernier adapted it into the awesome French film Coup de Torchon.

James Lee Burke - The Dave Robicheaux Novels. Check out In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead. They recently made a movie based on it with Tommy Lee Jones. Bertrand Tavernier directed it.

And it can't be a detective list without Agatha Christie's Poirot.

And if you're into hardboiled stuff, check out anything published under the Hard Case Crime imprint.