Here's the table of content's for Juri Nummelin's book Dark Places and Little Tramps, which is mainly about noir and hardboiled fiction, old and new. Here the book is on Amazon.
Preface
I LISTS
Essential noir
The best crime novels written by female authors
Hard Case Western
II CLASSIC NOIR
Lawrence Block: Grifter’s Game
Gil Brewer: The Red Scarf
Gil Brewer: The Brat
Robert Colby: The Captain Must Die
James Cross: Root of Evil
John Gregory Dunne: True Confessions
Martin M. Goldsmith: Detour
Patricia Highsmith: A Game for the Living
Patricia Highsmith: The Cry of the Owl
Patricia Highsmith: Ripley Under Water
Orrie Hitt: several books
Arthur Maling: From Thunder Bay
Don Tracy: Criss-Cross
James Michael Ullman: The Neon Haystack
European noir and neo-noir
Sébastien Japrisot: The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Jean-Patrick Manchette: 3 to Kill
Massimo Carlotto: The Goodbye Kiss
III HARDBOILED AND PRIVATE EYE NOVELS
Mickey Spillane
Robert Bloch: Shooting Star
Carter Brown: The Flagellator
Frank Castle: Lovely and Lethal
Michael Connelly: Echo Park
Michael Connelly: The Drop
Robert Crais: The First Rule
W. Glenn Duncan: Rafferty’s Rules
Stanley Ellin: The Eighth Circle
Joe Gores: Interface
Joe Gores: Spade & Archer
Stephen Greenleaf: The Grave Error; State’s Evidence
Paul Johnston: The Golden Silence
J. A. Konrath: Whiskey Sour
Michael Koryta: A Welcome Grave
Paul Kruger: A Bullet for a Blonde
Brad Latham: the Hook series
Elliott Lewis: Two Heads Are Better
Arthur Lyons: The Dead Are Discreet
Russel McLean: The Good Son
William F. Nolan: The Black Mask Murders
James Reasoner: Texas Wind
Andy Straka: A Witness Above
Jonathan Valin: Day of Wrath
Dave White: When One Man Dies; The Evil That Men Do
Books published only in Finnish
Frank Castle: The Sowers of the Doom
I. G. Edmonds: The Big Eye books
Other American paperbacks published only in Finnish
IV NEO-NOIR AND OTHER NEW GENRES
American neo-noir
Megan Abbott: Queenpin
Megan Abbott: Bury Me Deep
Megan Abbott: The End of Everything
Jonathan Ames: You Were Never Really Here
Charles Ardai: Fifty-to-One
Steve Brewer: The Bank Job
Thomas H. Cook: The Interrogation
David Corbett: Do They Know I’m Running?
James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon
Christa Faust: Choke Hold
Gillian Flynn: Girl Gone
Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects
Jordan Harper: She Rides Shotgun
Sam Hawken: Juárez Dance
Sam Hawken: Missing
Terrill Lankford: Shooters
Laura Lippman: Sunburn
Cormac McCarthy: No Country for Old Men
Max Phillips: Fade to Blonde
Scott Phillips: The Adjustment
Tom Piccirilli: The Cold Spot
Nic Pizzolatto: Galveston
John Rector: The Cold Kiss
J.D. Rhoades: Breaking Cover
David J. Schow: Gun Work
Anthony Neil Smith: Yellow Medicine & Jonathan Maberry: Patient Zero
Anthony Neil Smith: All the Young Warriors
Domenic Stansberry: The Confession
Jason Starr & Ken Bruen: Bust; Slide; The Max
Jason Starr: Tough Luck
Jason Starr: Twisted City
Jason Starr: The Follower
Jason Starr: Panic Attack
Jason Starr: The Pack
Jason Starr: Savage Lane
Jason Starr: Fugitive Red
Duane Swierczynski: The Wheelman
Duane Swierczynski: The Blonde
Duane Swierczynski: Expiration Date
Duane Swierczynski: Fun & Games
Duane Swierczynski: Revolver
Steven Torres: The Concrete Maze
Urban Waite: Sometimes the Wolf
Donald Westlake: The Hook
Don Winslow: Power of the Dog
Dave Zeltserman: Pariah
Dave Zeltserman: Killer
Dave Zeltserman: Bad Thoughts & Lawrence Block: Getting Off
British, Scottish and Irish neo-noir
Ray Banks: The Big Blind
Paul D. Brazill: Guns of Brixton
Allan Guthrie: Two-Way Split
Allan Guthrie: Savage Night
Allan Guthrie: Hard Man
Declan Hughes: The Colour of Blood
Malcolm McKay: The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter
Tana French: The Witch Elm
Kevin Wignall: Who Is Conrad Hirst?
V SPY AND MEN’S ADVENTURE PAPERBACKS
Jerry Ahern (as by Axel Kilgore): The Terror Contract
James Fritzhand: Sign of the Cobra
David Hagberg: The Istanbul Decision
Don Pendleton (Mike Newton): The Fiery Cross
Don Pendleton (Joshua Reynolds): Arctic Kill
John Quinn: The Kill Squad
Martin Cruz Smith: Nick Carter: The Inca Death Squad
George Snyder: Nick Carter: The Jewel of Doom
Robert Tine: Eraser
Gar Wilson: Chip Off the Bloc
VI THRILLERS AND SUSPENSE NOVELS
Lawrence Block: Killing Castro
Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code
Celia Fremlin: Hours Before Dawn
Brian Garfield: Hopscotch
Marisha Pessl: Night Film
Jason Pinter: The Mark
Jason Pinter: Fury
Livia Reasoner: The Vampire Affair
Todd Strasser: The Good Son
VII SLEAZE AND SEX PAPERBACKS
Lawrence Block: Kept; A Diet of Treacle
Mark Clement: The Boss’s Daughter; Ken Kane: Racket-Babe
Arnold English: School for Sex
H. P. Jaye: Come, Come, My Lover
Kimberly Kemp: Operation: Sex; Gerald Kramer: Swap Motel
Peter Keyes: By Sex Possessed, The Love Odds, Hardrock Romeo
Lester Morris: Savage Lust
Max Nortic: The Real Thing, Code Name: The Gypsy Virgin, Total Awareness,
Dirty Secrets
Robert Silverberg: Gang Girl/Sex Bum
Floyd Smith: Action Girls
Sleaze in brief
Sleaze books published possibly only in Finland
Jason Brown: Little Girl Gone
Bob Grand: Between All of Us
Ralph Hayes: Smiling Lips; Unvirtuous Wife
Jo Ann Sheer: Alayne’s Secret Pleasures
VIII WESTERNS
Thomas Berger: Little Big Man
Bill Crider: Outrage at Blanco
Joe Lansdale: The Thicket
H. A. DeRosso: .44
Patrick DeWitt: The Sisters Brothers
Dorothy M. Johnson: Indian Country
Elmore Leonard: Valdez Is Coming
Charles O. Locke: The Hell-Bent Kid
Clint McCall: Half Breed
Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian
Johnston McCulley: The Mark of Zorro
IX OTHER GENRES
Robert Ackworth: Young Doctor in Town
Penelope Ashe: Naked Came the Stranger
James R. Barton: Shadow Over Europe
Robert Crane: Born of Battle
John Fowles: A Maggot
Gardner F. Fox: Barbary Slave
Victor Gischler: Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse
Victor Gischler: Vampire-A-Go-Go
Clark Howard: Dirt Rich
Gabriel Hunt (Charles Ardai): Hunt Through the Cradle of Fear
Len Levinson: The Sergeant Mahoney books
David Markson: Reader’s Block
Leo Perutz: Der Mangowunderbaum
Robert Silverberg: Gilgamesh the King
X HORROR
Peter Brandvold: Paradox Falls
Bill Crider (as Jack MacLane): Goodnight, Moom
Bill Crider: Blood Marks
Michael Crichton: Eaters of the Dead
Brian Evenson: The Open Curtain
Ed Gorman: Cage of Night
Dean Koontz: Shattered
Michael Koryta: The Ridge
Michael Marshall: The Straw Men
Dan Simmons: Summer of Night
Jason Starr: The Pack
Kevin Wignall: The Mercian trilogy
Jack Williamson: Darker Than You Think
XI NON-FICTION
John Dinan: Sports in the Pulp Magazines
Steve Holland: The Mushroom Jungle
Paperback Parade: several issues from the 1990s
XII REVIEWS IN BRIEF
Joe Lansdale in brief
American noir and other crime fiction in brief
British neo-noir in brief
Other genres in brief
XIII BRITISH CRIME AND SPY NOVELS
Ray Alan: My Bonny Lies Under the Sea
Peter Chambers: The Bad Die Young
James Hadley Chase: several novels
Peter Cheyney: Dangerous Curves
Basil Copper: Flip Side; Snow Job
John Creasey: Gideon’s Risk
Paul Denver: The Deadly Chance
Adam Diment: The Dolly Dolly Spy
Stephen Frances: The Sad and Tender Flesh
Stephen Frances (as by Hank Janson): Way Out Wanton
Sean Gregory: Murder Bangs a Big Drum
Leonard Gribble: Striptease Murder
Jack Higgins: Comes the Dark Stranger
Hartley Howard: A Hearse for Cinderella; Epitaph for Joanna; Put Out
That Star
David Hume: The Cardby series
Hank Janson: Lust for Vengeance
Hank Janson (Harry Hobson): The Deadly Horse-race
George Joseph: The Curtain Has Lace Fringes
Bill Knox: Deadline for a Dream
H. L. Lawrence: The Sparta Medallion
Stanley Morgan: The Courier
Bryan Peters: Hong Kong Kill
Manning K. Robertson: Pattern for Survival
Kenneth Royce: The XYY Man; The Miniatures Frame; The Stalin Account
Angus Ross: The Huddersfield Job
Jimmy Sangster: Foreign Exchange
Frank Struan: Murder’s So Unpleasant; Tunnel of Nightmare, Ruthless Enemy,
Fall Guy, The Girl from the Sea
John Wainwright: The Big Tickle; The Talent for Murder; The Distaff Factor;
Cul-de-sac
Vernon Warren: No Bouquets for Brandon
Ronald Wills: He Never Came Home
XIV GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COMIC BOOKS
Walter Hill, Matz & Jef: The Assignment; Triggerman; Christa Faust, Gary
Phillips & Andrea Camerini: Peepland
Craig McDonald & Kevin Singles: Head Games
Leslie Waller, Arnold Drake & Matt Baker: It Rhymes with Lust
XV FINNISH LITERATURE
Aino Kallas: The Wolf ’s Bride
Mika Waltari: The Egyptian; The Etruscan
Finnish private eyes
