Fiction

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammett
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
What’s Done in Darkness by Laura McHugh
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Bloody January by Alan Parks
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
The Killing Hills by Chris Offut
Bedelia by Vera Caspary
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Crosby
Blood on the Moon by James Ellroy
The Grifters by Jim Thompson
Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames

Film

Double Indemnity
Murder, My Sweet
The Usual Suspects
Touch of Evil
Memento
The Asphalt Jungle
Sunset Boulevard
The Departed
The Cooler
The Big Sleep