24 Top mystery books like Skim Deep by Max Allan Collins

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Skim Deep

By: Max Allan Collins

3.95

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Nolan has spent his life pulling heists, and now he’s ready to retire. But one job after another ke…

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Cover of Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23) by Richard Stark

1. Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23)

By: Richard Stark

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes mystery master Donald E. Westlake is the author of uproarious crime capers. Sometimes he … read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23) book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Flashfire (Parker, #19) by Richard Stark, Richard Stark (pseud. Donald E Westlake)

2. Flashfire (Parker, #19)

By: Richard Stark , Richard Stark (pseud. Donald E Westlake)

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Melander likes to do things flashy. When Parker finds himself working with Melander on a bank heist… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Flashfire (Parker, #19) book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"This is crazy," he said. "You don't just shoot people." "Yes I do," Parker said."

-Richard Stark, Flashfire (Parker, #19)

Cover of Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2) by Raymond Chandler

3. 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

Similar categories in Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2) book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"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)

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4. Dirty Money (Parker, #24)

By: Richard Stark

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Book by read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning." Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said."

-Richard Stark, Dirty Money (Parker, #24)

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5. Backflash (Parker, #18)

By: Richard Stark

4.10

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Following on the heels of Comeback, a New York Times Notable Book, a new Parker adventure finds the… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Backflash (Parker, #18) book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The shirtsleeved bald bartender was tall and fat, looking like a retired cop who'd gone to seed the day his papers had come through. At the bar, muttering together about sports and politics—other peo…"

-Richard Stark, Backflash (Parker, #18)

Cover of Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) by Elmore Leonard

6. 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

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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)

Cover of The Seventh (Parker, #7) by Richard Stark

7. The Seventh (Parker, #7)

By: Richard Stark

4.08

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Why not? Just because no one had ever tried it before? What better place for a heist, if it was … read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Seventh (Parker, #7) book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"They had this block to themselves. The windows of all the tenements on both sides were marked with the white X of urban renewal; they stood nearly empty, waiting for the wreckers. Within them the coc…"

-Richard Stark, The Seventh (Parker, #7)

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8. The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.26

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Originally published in 1960 as The Mercenaries. SOME PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY Mavis St. P… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53) book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Green Eagle Score (Parker, #10) by Richard Stark

9. The Green Eagle Score (Parker, #10)

By: Richard Stark

4.31

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here's Parker--planning to steal the entire payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York, with … read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Green Eagle Score (Parker, #10) book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16) by Richard Stark

10. 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

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16) book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"He's a man who didn't hear the twig snap."

-Richard Stark, Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

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11. 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

Similar categories in Mickey Spillane's I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1) book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Slayground (Parker, #14) by Richard Stark

12. Slayground (Parker, #14)

By: Richard Stark

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The Wheel of Fortune turned and Parker figured his number had finally come up. An armored car heist… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Slayground (Parker, #14) book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Jugger (Parker, #6) by Richard Stark

13. The Jugger (Parker, #6)

By: Richard Stark

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Not many men knew what Parker did for a living, because what he did was steal. But Joe Sheer, a ret… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6) book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Well, it just figures," Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The technicians worked around him now as though they expected to launch him into space."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The room was full of law. Apparently somebody on Younger’s force had invited the state police to attend after all; the pack of technical men, with their cameras and chalk, powders and notebooks and l…"

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

14. The Outfit (Parker, #3)

By: Richard Stark

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the Outfit tries to kill him, Parker declares war. Ripping off the syndicate is easy, but goin… read more

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15. Firebreak (Parker, #20)

By: Richard Stark

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Parker put down the body and answered the phone. And from that moment on he had two jobs to do. One… read more

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16. The Man With The Getaway Face (Parker, #2)

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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17. My Gun Is Quick

By: Mickey Spillane

3.78

Format: 584 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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18. The Hunter (Parker, #1)

By: Richard Stark

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Double-crossed, shot, and left for dead -- by his wife. The thriller that introduces Parker. "A bri… read more

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19. The Mourner (Parker, #4)

By: Richard Stark

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The statue wore white and grieved. Parker wasn’t interested in its sentimental value. The thief car… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Mourner (Parker, #4) book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away."

-Richard Stark, The Mourner (Parker, #4)

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20. Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.03

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When John Dortmunder sets out to rob a bank, he really means it. He steals the whole thing. With th… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2) book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

21. Nobody's Angel (Hard Case Crime, #65)

By: Jack Clark

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

While Chicago cabbie Eddie Miles drives the city streets at midnight, two killers--one targeting pr… read more

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Cover of The Handle (Parker, #8) by Richard Stark

22. The Handle (Parker, #8)

By: Richard Stark

3.96

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Baron ran a gambling island off the Texas coast in the Gulf’s blue waters. To Parker, it was ju… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8) book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Parker simply went where money was and took it away."

-Richard Stark, The Handle (Parker, #8)

23. 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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24. Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

By: Richard Stark

4.10

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Deadly Edge bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes sout… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Deadly Edge (Parker, #13) book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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25. 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

Similar categories in James Kestrel's Five Decembers book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Aishitemasu"

-James Kestrel, Five Decembers

"It was a complete disaster and no one had done anything wrong."

-James Kestrel, Five Decembers

Cover of Call Me a Cab by Donald E. Westlake

26. Call Me a Cab

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.00

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

In 1977, one of the world’s finest crime novelists turned his pen to suspense of a very different s… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Call Me a Cab book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Mike Hammer - Dig Two Graves by Mickey Spillane

27. Mike Hammer - Dig Two Graves

By: Mickey Spillane

3.78

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by the master of noir Mickey Spillane, takes on the mob in the f… read more

Similar categories in Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer - Dig Two Graves book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
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28. Lowdown Road

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more

Similar categories in Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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29. Charlesgate Confidential

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.10

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

"CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL is terrific" - Stephen KingA breathtakingly clever, twist-filled narrativ… read more

Similar categories in Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"I’ve got the Halloween soundtrack here somewhere,"

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

"It was all like a movie—hell, it was a whole damn film festival."

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

"His story was incredible—literally, in the sense that it was not credible."

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

"Jackie wasn’t just out of my league—we weren’t even playing the same sport."

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

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30. Schrader's Chord

By: Scott Leeds

4.06

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader's Chord , Scott Leeds's chilling debu… read more

Similar categories in Scott Leeds's Schrader's Chord book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Also ..." He nodded to the lone restaurant surrounded by trees. "... that looks like the s-sort of place that has pie." "And hot coffee," Ana added, closing her eyes and purring. Raymond smiled. "May…"

-Scott Leeds, Schrader's Chord

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31. Skim Deep

By: Max Allan Collins

3.95

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Nolan has spent his life pulling heists, and now he’s ready to retire. But one job after another ke… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep book and Max Allan Collins's Skim Deep

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

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4.08

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The Green Eagle Score (Parker, #10)

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4.31

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4.00

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3.94

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3.83

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3.94

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4.00

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