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"...down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world..."--The Simple Art of Murder
Having read and greatly enjoyed Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, and Walter Mosley, I would like to read more hardboiled detective (or related) but I'm unsure who else is of the same high quality, so I thought I'd take suggestions just like the recent Science Fiction thread
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