Wed 14 Oct 2026
My Top 10 PI Novels, by Tony Baer.
— One per author; private = no police detectives:
The Maltese Falcon
Long Goodbye
Galton Case
8th Circle (Ellin)
No Good from a Corpse (Brackett)
Solomon’s Vineyard (Latimer)
Death in a Bowl (Whitfield)
Last Good Kiss (Crumley)
Taste of Ashes (Browne)
I, the Jury
October 14th, 2026 at 1:58 pm
A couple of thoughts from me:
Strangely enough, my own Top Ten list would look very much like this one. Your opinion may vary, but as I suspect, not by much.
Of Tony’s top ten, I am pleased to say that I have read nine. The outlier, for me, is Howard Browne’s book, which I have in a slip-cased edition, but even though everyone I know (well, lots of people) has told me I have to read it, so far, I haven’t. It’s on my list, though!
What I really wish is that I were younger again, young enough that I have not read these yet. What a treat to have ahead of me!