The Complete Crime Stories
By: James M. Cain
3.90
Format: 608 pages, Kindle Edition
Seventeen hardboiled crime stories from the “poet of the tabloid murder” and author of Double Indem…
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1. My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Who can forget our beloved gentleman's personal gentleman, Jeeves, who ever comes to the rescue whe… read more
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- short stories
"Come on," he said. "Bring the poker." I brought the tongs as well. I felt like it."-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
"What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean."-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
"I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class."-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
"It was one of those jolly, peaceful mornings that make a chappie wish he'd got a soul or something"-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
2. Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe
By: Loren D. Estleman , Robert Crais , Sara Paretsky , Julie Smith , Robert B. Parker , Simon Brett , Eric Van Lustbader , Jonathan Valin , Robert Campbell , Byron Preiss
4.13
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Originally published a decade ago and now expanded, this book is a homage to the greatest detective… read more
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- short stories
3. The Vanished Man (Lincoln Rhyme, #5)
By: Jeffery Deaver
4.11
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
It begins at a prestigious music school in New York City. A killer flees the scene of a homicide an… read more
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- mystery
- thriller
- crime
"Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those're both illusions – memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that's completel…"-Jeffery Deaver, The Vanished Man (Lincoln Rhyme, #5)
4. The Dillinger Days
By: John Toland
3.87
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
For thirteen violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. Th… read more
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- crime
5. Nightfall
By: Bill Pronzini , David Goodis
3.87
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
“An almost perfect book, spare, balanced, and inexplicably moving.”—Geoffrey O’Brien Jim Vanning… read more
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- mystery
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- crime
6. The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)
By: Robert B. Parker
3.92
Format: 204 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hir… read more
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"A cold McDonald's hamburger is halfway between a jelly doughnut and a hockey puck, but the nine-dollar bourbon helped."-Robert B. Parker, The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)
"It was a bright day, but cold, and the whores had emerged, working the Combat Zone, looking cold and bizarre in their miniskirts, boots, and blond wigs. Being seductive at twenty degrees was heavy go…"-Robert B. Parker, The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)
7. Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death (Mitch Tobin #1)
By: Donald E. Westlake , Tucker Coe
3.94
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
Mitch Tobin is a hard-nosed, disgraced ex-cop who spends his days building a wall around his back y… read more
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- mystery
- crime
8. The Thin Man
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve h… read more
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9. The Black-Eyed Blonde
By: Benjamin Black
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Hardcover
Raymond Chandler's incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the m… read more
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10. The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.20
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
When Bingo Little falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into th… read more
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- short stories
"Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"The kid is a pest, a wart, and a pot of poison, and should be strangled!"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"My God, man!" I gargled. "The cravat! The gent's neckwear! Why? For what reason?"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"I thought Eustace *was* a horrible accident, and Claude about the same, but I didn't say so."-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
11. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
By: Elmore Leonard
4.00
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more
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- short stories
- crime
"I want you to understand,"-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
12. The Case of the Careless Kitten
By: Erle Stanley Gardner
4.48
Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback
DOUBLY DISAPPEARED Ten years ago, town banker Franklin Shore left all his money behind, disappeared… read more
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13. Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)
By: Richard Stark
4.41
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher’s Moon is more than twice as long most of the master heister’s … read more
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"He's a man who didn't hear the twig snap."-Richard Stark, Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)
14. Hombre
By: Elmore Leonard
3.62
Format: 120 pages,
John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the… read more
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- crime
15. Logan's Run (Logan, #1)
By: William F. Nolan , George Clayton Johnson
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
It's the 23rd Century and at age 21... your life is over! Logan-6 has been trained to kill; born an… read more
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17. Goldilocks (Matthew Hope, #1)
By: Ed McBain
3.00
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
Soft-hearted attorney Matthew Hope has never been known for taking easy cases, and this is no excep… read more
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18. The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 5: The Eye of The Sibyl
By: Thomas M. Disch , Philip K. Dick
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Philip K. Dick's works has continued to grow, and his… read more
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19. The Magician's Wife
By: Brian Moore
3.55
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Brian Moore is best known for his mysteries of faith and fanaticism. The Statementfocuses on a murd… read more
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20. Laidlaw (Jack Laidlaw, #1)
By: William McIlvanney
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
The unorthodox, complex, sardonically humorous, intriguing policeman Jack Laidlaw makes his debut i… read more
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21. Prison Noir
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.99
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
"Reading the fifteen stories in Prison Noiris a sobering experience. Unlike most claimants to that … read more
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22. Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, #1)
By: Ian Rankin , Mircea Pricăjan
3.00
Format: None pages,
Detective John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders...and he's tied … read more
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23. Pop. 1280
By: Jim Thompson
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest cri… read more
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24. Pronto
By: Elmore Leonard
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
"Speedy, exhilarating, and smooth. Nobody does it better." --Washington Post "The man knows how to … read more
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25. Raylan Goes to Detroit (Raylan Givens, #4)
By: Peter Leonard
4.13
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
After an altercation with his superiors in Harlan County, Kentucky, Deputy US Marshal, Raylan Given… read more
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26. Five Decembers
By: James Kestrel
4.43
Format: 429 pages, Hardcover
December 1941: America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe M… read more
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"Aishitemasu"-James Kestrel, Five Decembers
"It was a complete disaster and no one had done anything wrong."-James Kestrel, Five Decembers
27. The Complete Crime Stories
By: James M. Cain
3.90
Format: 608 pages, Kindle Edition
Seventeen hardboiled crime stories from the “poet of the tabloid murder” and author of Double Indem… read more
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28. The Best of Damon Knight
By: Damon Knight
3.86
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Dark of the Knight • (1976) • essay by Barry N. Malzberg Not with a Bang • (1950) To Serve Man • … read more
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29. The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023
By: Lisa Unger
3.41
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bests… read more
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30. The Big Book of the Continental Op
By: Dashiell Hammett
4.32
Format: 733 pages, Paperback
For the first time ever in one volume, all 28 stories plus one unfinished and 2 serialized novels s… read more
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31. Turning the Tables: The Short Stories of Helen Nielsen
By: Helen Nielsen
4.75
Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition
TURNING THE TABLESHelen Nielsen was a master of the turnabout. Her stories rarely end on a predicta… read more
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