Can someone recommend me some detective novels?
Prefered if they are kinda like Tex, but not a requirement

well if you like tex the developers are at this very moment writing the overseer novel which will be the script for the future game (project fedora) the other novels uakm & pandora could also re issued under ebooks

I cannot wait for the realese of that book and game, really enjoyed the series, as for the books I hope they do and maybe a physical one aswell,been trying to get them but they seem to be available only on amazon and since no pictures are shown, I'm kinda worried about the condition

The Tex Murphy games seem to have two main influences: The first being the American "gumshoe" crime novels of the thirties and fourties; the second, the film Blade Runner.

As for the first, I'd recommend the novels of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammet, and Mickey Spillane.

Hammett created pretty much the mold for all the hard-boiled detectives that followed, the character Sam Spade. Surprisingly, though, this character was only in one novel, The Maltese Falcon. Nearly everyone has heard of this, I'm sure, mainly do to the John Huston film, but the original novel is very enjoyable and well-written.

Chandler created the character of Philip Marlowe (which is greatly influenced by Sam Spade). His best novels are The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, The Lady in the Lake, and The Long Goodbye. There are some others too. They are all entertaining and very well-written.

Whereas Chandler and Hammet's books can contend with serious literature, Mickey Spillane's straddle a line and can be pretty trashy at times. They really aren't that well-written, but they can be entertaining. His main detective character is Mike Hammer and most books you find from him will probably be Mike Hammer mysteries. (I do recommend the film version of his book Kiss Me, Deadly. It's a lot of fun, very stylish, and has a plot element that's "quoted" (some might say stolen) in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.)

Concerning the Blade Runner influence, your best bet is the writer of the original novel himself, Philip K. Dick. The novel the film is based on is vastly different, but it's a wonderfully imaginative novel. The main character isn't quite a hard-boiled detective like the others mentioned above and, of course, Tex Murphy, but he is a detective of sorts who investigates a crime. Some of Dick's other novels also follow detective characters like this. At the moment, the only one I can think of is the great Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, but there are others. A web search should find you some if you are interested.

I hope this helps!

Tyvm I'll check them out :)

I can give you the first two books that are on pdf . the first was pandora & then they went back & wrote UAKM after the game was released.

edict

If you have any trouble receiving those books, as a back up, this website has both of them available for download:

[url=http://home.comcast.net/~pdrallos131681/eBooks.htm]http://home.comcast.net/~pdrallos131681/eBooks.htm[/url]

I actually forgot about this site is okay it's one our members sites from (tex murphy murphy forum)so it's safe to download there. as far as the ebooks format I am not sure what format it is but the pdf is fine.