Queenpin
By: Megan Abbott
3.75
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken under the wing of t…
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1. Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.10
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at… read more
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- mystery thriller
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"She was a cute as a washtub."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"It was a nice walk, if you liked grunting."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
2. Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score
By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A high-octane trip across America, The Score finds Parker assembling the best caper men he can find… read more
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- noir
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3. The Drowning Pool
By: Ross Macdonald
3.58
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are… read more
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- mystery thriller
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4. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
By: James Ellroy
4.26
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more
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- noir
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5. The Killer Inside Me
By: Jim Thompson
3.60
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to … read more
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- noir
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6. Double Indemnity
By: James M. Cain
4.06
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, o… read more
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- mystery thriller
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"I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake"-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity
"I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman."-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity
"They've committed a *murder*! And it's not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They're stuck with each other and they got to ride all the way to the end of …"-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity
"There's a shark. Following the ship.' I tried not to look, but couldn't help it. I saw a flash of dirty white down in the green. We walked back to the deck chairs. Walter, we'll have to wait. Till th…"-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity
7. The Moving Target
By: Ross Macdonald
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshi… read more
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8. I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
By: Mickey Spillane
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Here's Mickey Spillane and Mike Hammer in their roughest and readiest--a double-strength shot of se… read more
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- noir
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10. New Hope for the Dead
By: James Lee Burke , Charles Willeford
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley is called to a posh Miami neighborhood to investigate a letha… read more
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11. The Way Some People Die
By: Ross Macdonald
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Arch… read more
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12. The Score (Parker, #5)
By: Richard Stark
3.93
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
It was an impossible crime: knock off a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores in on… read more
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13. The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
By: James Ellroy
4.10
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Holl… read more
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14. Winter's Bone
By: Daniel Woodrell
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The sheriff's deputy at the front door brings hard news to Ree Dolly. Her father has skipped bail o… read more
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15. A Hell of a Woman
By: Jim Thompson
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Frank "Dolly" Dillon has a job he hates, working sales and collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores, a wife… read more
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16. L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
By: James Ellroy
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoner… read more
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17. Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
By: Walter Mosley
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Los Angeles of the late 1940s, Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his j… read more
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18. In a Lonely Place
By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more
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19. The Sacred Well Murders
By: Susan Rowland
4.30
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A simple job turns deadly when Mary Wandwalker, novice detective, is hired to chaperone a young Ame… read more
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- mystery
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"Take it away,"-Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders
"I EAT THE DARK"-Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders
"So, Mr. Jeffreys,"-Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders
"Wife of Lir eat horse."-Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders
20. Queenpin
By: Megan Abbott
3.75
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken under the wing of t… read more
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21. To Die in June (Harry McCoy, #6)
By: Alan Parks
4.33
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
A woman enters a Glasgow police station to report her son missing, but no record can be found of th… read more
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