A selection of my favourite books:

• Nevada, by Imogen Binnie
• The Big Sleep & The High Window, by Raymond Chandler
• Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allan Poe
• Pleasant Dreams — Nightmares, by Robert Bloch

• The Moving Target, by Ross Macdonald
• I, the Jury, by Mickey Spillane
• Double Indemnity, by James M. Cain
• In the Midst of Death & A Stab in the Dark, by Lawrence Block
• The Black Echo & Blood Work, by Michael Connelly
• Animal Farm, by George Orwell