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¿Question #2185?
puffinge: Have you ever read any murder mysteries from the 30s or 40s? Did you like them? Any favorite authors?

ocdspectrum: No. They had books back then?
pricero1: I've enjoyed Dashiell Hammett.
Caerid: I have not
arkibet: no
Felimid: I've tried to, but most of them just don't get my interest. The movie versions tend to be more interesting. Dashiel Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon" for instance: I like the movie, not the book. I've tried reading Mickey Spillane's stuff ... no thanks.
ZeroZilla: I've only ever read Agatha Christie's works from that time-period. They're interesting, but mysteries aren't my favorite genre, as I so rarely get them right.
Cheshire Swift: No.
Spirit of 70: Yes, I have, and yes, I liked them. My favorite author from that period is Dashiell Hammet.
xofour: I don't know. I don't believe that I have, but i've read some odd stuff. So I am going to say not intentionally.
Frubgarde: Agatha Christie.
MisterCranky: Sure, I've read tons. I'm a huge fan of that time period in mystery writing. Who doesn't love Dashiell Hammett? I am also a big fan of some of the ladies who wrote back then. Patricia Highsmith, Mignon Eberhart...oh, there are so many. Plus, because I can never remember anything that I read before I was about 20, I get to read them all again as though they are new to me.
WatchmanX2000: yes. yes. perhaps.
DHEK: Never read 'em before. Probably won't unless they come highly, highly recommended and I have time to do so.
aleo09: no.
vampywife: nope, not my preferred reading.
onky: Never read them.
buffalospynovel: Sure, that was Agatha Christie's time, plus a few others.
purvisa: Generally not my era or genre
Justin77: I haven't
KentuckyKid: Read Ellery Queen for awhile several years back. I think some of those are from the 40s.
Leo-T: Yes & yes. No particular author leaps to mind. Actually was in a play that was a murder mystery written in 1916 - called "The 13th Chair"
ellephai: Totally! There are others, but Agatha Christie comes to mind first. I am especially keen on the Miss Marple ones.
Otter: Yes. I forget the author; Peter Whimsey is the "detective."
ibemichael: No, are they good?
zappothedude: Dorothy L. Sayers
jasta6: nope.......................
Chris Page: Dorothy Sayers, of course.
brainrob: No. No. Repeat question.
bigbadsteve: agatha christie. not really, but i was pretty young, so i would probably enjoy it more now
zadmando: Yes! Love them! Can't think of any names!
fFish: Agatha Cristie
jellospike: Yes, yes and John Dickson Carr
POvidiusNaso: All I've read is the Maltese Falcon, which is only partly a murder mystery, and it's from 1929 anyway.
Dr. No: Chandler, Hammett, Woolrich
Belash: no
gamesbook: No.
BaSL: DNQ
anson: No.
Lord_Prussian: Not from the 30s or 40s.
sourwyrm: nope
scriptorum: I love Rex Stout's mysteries of Nero Wolfe. I think he started writing them in the early 40s, maybe late 30s.
ssmooth: Plenty. Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Agatha Christie, Rex Stout, Dorothy Sayers.
Ebon Wendigo: Yes. Yes. Yes,Dashiell Hammet.
Redneon: Yes,
skrutsch: I've enjoyed reading Agatha Christie novels.
djlg: Yes. Yes. No.
mandj2001: haven't read any
Karlsen: Ask my wife
snoozefest: no
Randy Cox: Does Agatha Christie go back that far?
ValJor: Never read any
puffinge: I love them so that makes me a bigger geek than you. John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen, Cyril Hare, etc, etc.
toulouse: no
kennyb: dont think so
bbenston: Yes. Dashiell Hammett. Raymond Chandler.
gnomehome: no
jttm: Nope
heli: Hammett is great.
chaddyboy_2000: No.
sos1: Yes: Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Fredric Brown are all excellent - far better than most mystery writers today.
Blackwind: no
skelebone: No, I'm not much of a murder mystery person. I believe the last one I read was E is for Evidence by Grafton about ten years ago.
Spielfreak: no
AlorielLelyn: Never read any
CDRodeffer: Not that I recall.