Six American noir masters

Barry Forshaw, author of The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction, named a "critic's chart" of "six American noir masters" for the London Times.The top two writers on his list:Dashiell HammettThe hard-drinking pulpmaster's streetwise Marxism informed the blistering Red Harvest.Raymond ChandlerChandler refined the form; The Big Sleep is a sardonic, coruscating diamond of a novel.Read the full list.-