The personal crime library of A.B.Patterson! # 2

So the really important stuff - what's actually in my crime library?

Well, this is shelf 1 - and it's all American.  Here's the line up, starting with my two favourites.  And it was Chandler who got me started in the hard-boiled school, both reading and writing!

Raymond Chandler
Ross Macdonald
Dashiell Hammett
Jim Thompson
Joseph Wambaugh
William Ard
James M. Cain
Chester Himes
Mickey Spillane
Michael Collins
Kinky Friedman
Richard Neely
Richard Stark
Charles Willeford
Lawrence Block
Max Allan Collins
Stephen King
Meyer Levin
Stephen Lewis
Carl Hiaasen
Michael Avallone (aka Troy Conway)
James Lee Burke
James Ellroy
William F. Nolan
And there are some anthologies as well.

Oh, and it you look closely, you'll spot a certain non-American nestling comfortably next to Chandler.  Yes, my two original copies of Harry's World live there!  (The first copy from each print run). 
 
Cheers,
ABP