The Best in Hard-Boiled Fiction

Anyone else a big fan of crime novels? I came to this genre relatively late in life, my mid-twenties, but I've really fallen in love with certain types of crime fiction. Here's a quick list of some really good works:

The Maltese Falcon
The Long Goodbye
The Black Dahlia
A Drink Before the War
Concrete Blonde
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World- Haruki Murakami

Gah, there's a lot more I want to mention, but I've no time... more later. Tell me what crime novels you're into and why: I'm always looking for a great read.[/i]