12 Best noir books like The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime) by Robert Silverberg

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The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

By: Robert Silverberg

3.31

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

A disgraced LA music star faces execution for a crime he didn't commit in the long-lost crime novel…

If you liked the noir plot in The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime) by Robert Silverberg , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of True Detective (Nathan Heller, #1) by Max Allan Collins

1. True Detective (Nathan Heller, #1)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.00

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Nate Heller, an honest young plainclothes cop on the corrupt Chicago police force, turns in his bad… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's True Detective (Nathan Heller, #1) book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • noir
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2. 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

Similar categories in Bill Pronzini's Nightfall book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
Cover of Forever and a Death by Donald E. Westlake, Jeff Kleeman

3. Forever and a Death

By: Donald E. Westlake , Jeff Kleeman

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. We… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Forever and a Death book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Castle in the Air by Donald E. Westlake

4. Castle in the Air

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.50

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

A British master criminal assembles an international gang of infamous thieves to steal a castle who… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Castle in the Air book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
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5. Turn on the Heat

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Erle Stanley Gardner's Turn on the Heat book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
Cover of The Knife Slipped by Erle Stanley Gardner

6. The Knife Slipped

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

THE LOST DETECTIVE NOVEL BY THE CREATOR OF PERRY MASON! At the time of his death, Erle Stanley Gard… read more

Similar categories in Erle Stanley Gardner's The Knife Slipped book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • noir

7. Shills Can't Cash Chips

By: Erle Stanley Gardner , A.A. Fair

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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Similar categories in Erle Stanley Gardner's Shills Can't Cash Chips book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • crime

8. Gun Monkeys

By: Victor Gischler

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Charlie Swift just pumped three .38-caliber bullets into a dead polar bear in his taxidermist girlf… read more

Similar categories in Victor Gischler's Gun Monkeys book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

9. 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

Similar categories in Jack Clark's Nobody's Angel (Hard Case Crime, #65) book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

10. Quarry (Quarry, #1)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Broker deals in murder on the open market with the assistance of a highly paid precise killer named… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's Quarry (Quarry, #1) book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

11. Fools Die On Friday

By: Erle Stanley Gardner , A.A. Fair

3.73

Format: 112 pages,

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Similar categories in Erle Stanley Gardner's Fools Die On Friday book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

Cover of The Next Time I Die (Hard Case Crime) by Jason Starr

12. The Next Time I Die (Hard Case Crime)

By: Jason Starr

3.64

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

DYING WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING. Steven Blitz didn't think about his own safety when he saw the man… read more

Similar categories in Jason Starr's The Next Time I Die (Hard Case Crime) book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • noir
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13. 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 Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • crime
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14. 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 Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
Cover of Charlesgate Confidential by Scott Von Doviak

15. 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 Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • noir
"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

Cover of Blood Sugar (Hard Case Crime) by Daniel Kraus

16. Blood Sugar (Hard Case Crime)

By: Daniel Kraus

3.42

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

In a ruined house at the end of Yellow Street, an angry outcast hatches a scheme to take revenge fo… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Kraus's Blood Sugar (Hard Case Crime) book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Heller - The Big Bundle by Max Allan Collins

17. Heller - The Big Bundle

By: Max Allan Collins

4.27

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

True Crime detective Nathan Heller returns in a brand new case that connects a millionaire’s kidnap… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's Heller - The Big Bundle book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
Cover of Understudy for Death by Charles Willeford

18. Understudy for Death

By: Charles Willeford

3.20

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Charles Willeford's legendary lost novel, unavailable since its original publication in 1961.AN UNF… read more

Similar categories in Charles Willeford's Understudy for Death book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
Cover of The Last Stand by Mickey Spillane

19. The Last Stand

By: Mickey Spillane

3.62

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one la… read more

Similar categories in Mickey Spillane's The Last Stand book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
Cover of The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime) by Robert Silverberg

20. The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

By: Robert Silverberg

3.31

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

A disgraced LA music star faces execution for a crime he didn't commit in the long-lost crime novel… read more

Similar categories in Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime) book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • noir
Cover of So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime) by Oakley Hall

21. So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

By: Oakley Hall

3.79

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

The legendary lost crime novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Oakley Hall, instructor of Ann Rice, Am… read more

Similar categories in Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime) book and Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir

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True Detective (Nathan Heller, #1)

Max Allan Collins

4.00

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Nightfall

Bill Pronzini , David Goodis

3.87

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Forever and a Death

Donald E. Westlake , Jeff Kleeman

3.73

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3.50

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Quarry's Ex (Quarry #10)

Max Allan Collins

3.83

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Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death (Mitch Tobin #1)

Donald E. Westlake , Tucker Coe

3.94

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The Wrong Quarry (Quarry #11)

Max Allan Collins

4.00

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Erle Stanley Gardner

4.33

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