life_interrupts
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The complete works of Dashiell Hammett. Start with Red Harvest
+1, considered the original noir novel. Basically Kurosawa's Yojimbo is based on this novel, which spawned A Fist Full of Dollars and Last Man Standing. Assuming no one else has mentioned these, The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye (Raymond Chandler), A Rage in Harlem (Chester Himes), and The Thin Man (Hammett) will give all you a good read.