Double Indemnity – James M. Cain (screenplay by Billy Wilder & Raymond Chandler)

The Third Man – Graham Greene (a novella)

The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett

Touch of Evil – Whit Masterson “Badge of Evil”

Strangers on a Train – Patricia Highsmith

The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler

The Ox Bow Incident – Walter Van Tilburg Clark

The Night of the Hunter – Davis Grubb

Sweet Smell of Success – Ernest Lehman (novella)

The Killing – Lionel White “Clean Break”

The Lost Weekend – Charles R Jackson

Laura – Vera Caspary

Out of the Past – Daniel Mainwaring “Build My Gallows High” (under Geoffrey Homes)

Night and the City – Gerald Kersh

The Asphalt Jungle – W.R. Burnett

Odd Man Out – F.L. Green

Scarface – Armitage Trail

The Woman in the Window – J.H. Wallis

Mildred Pierce – James M. Cain

Leave Her To Heaven – Ben Ames Williams

The Big Clock – Kenneth Fearing

Nightmare Alley – William Lindsay Gresham

Murder, My Sweet – Raymond Chandler