Sounds like a serious obligation!
From writing.ie:
International best sellers John Connolly and Declan Hughes first presented versions of this list at the Dalkey Book Festival back in June, then at the world mystery convention, Bouchercon in San Francisco.
It is essential reading for all aspiring crime and mystery writers, detailing crime greats such as Dashiell Hammett, James Lee Burke, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Patricia Highsmith and George V. Higgins - but of course leaves out two that no self respecting crime writer should miss - Hughes and Connolly themselves.
And this is a list with bonuses--each title on the list comes with an extra suggested book by the same author. And it's a great list, beginning with Dashiell Hammett's 1931 The Glass Key:
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