11 must-read pulp books like So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime) by Oakley Hall

Cover of So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime) by Oakley Hall

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…

If you liked the pulp plot in So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime) by Oakley Hall , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Black Phone

By: Joe Hill

3.71

Format: 27 pages, ebook

This short story was originally published in Joe Hill's collection 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS. read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's The Black Phone book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Forever and a Death by Donald E. Westlake, Jeff Kleeman

2. 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 Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • pulp
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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3. 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 Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

4. The Yiddish Policemen's Union

By: Michael Chabon

3.95

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

For sixty years, Jews have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven cre… read more

Similar categories in Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

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

5. 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 Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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6. V.

By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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Similar categories in Thomas Pynchon's V. book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • novels
  • fiction

7. Random Acts of Senseless Violence

By: Jack Womack

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

With his vivid, stylized prose, cyberpunk intensity, and seemingly limitless imagination, Jack Woma… read more

Similar categories in Jack Womack's Random Acts of Senseless Violence book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17) by Charles   Williams

8. A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17)

By: Charles Williams

3.20

Format: 144 pages,

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Similar categories in Charles Williams's A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17) book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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9. The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30)

By: Gil Brewer

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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Similar categories in Gil Brewer's The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30) book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

10. 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 Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • pulp
  • fiction
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11. Angels

By: Denis Johnson

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Adazzling and savage first novel' New York Times Angelstells the story of two born losers. Jamie h… read more

Similar categories in Denis Johnson's Angels book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction

12. Bleeding Edge

By: Thomas Pynchon

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet It is 2001 in New York City,… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

13. Quarry's Deal (Quarry, #3)

By: Max Allan Collins

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

BEHIND THE DOORS OF AN ILLEGAL CASINO, WILL QUARRY FIND LADY LUCK...OR A LADY KILLER? Putting his p… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's Quarry's Deal (Quarry, #3) book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

14. 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 Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

15. Help, I Am Being Held Prisoner

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Westlake pens another comedy caper of seven men who have the perfect alibi--they are in jail. The c… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Help, I Am Being Held Prisoner book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

16. Strange Embrace

By: Lawrence Block , None

4.32

Format: 312 pages, ebook

When his leading lady winds up dead, a Broadway producer goes searching for a different kind of hit… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's Strange Embrace book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

17. Stick

By: Elmore Leonard

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In Stick,an ex-con trying to go straight finds himself tempted by a high stakes, sweet-revenge scam… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Stick book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

18. Brothers Keepers

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

When the order's lease on the Park Avenue monastery expires, sixteen monks face a greedy real-estat… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Brothers Keepers book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

19. 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 Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

Cover of Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1) by John Updike

20. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

By: John Updike

3.58

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—… read more

Similar categories in John Updike's Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1) book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • novels
  • fiction
  • 20th century
"You were never in Texas,"

-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

"They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."

-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."

-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

"The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you’re going before you go there."

-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

Cover of You Like It Darker by Stephen        King

21. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's You Like It Darker book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Next Time I Die (Hard Case Crime) by Jason Starr

22. 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 Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Lowdown Road by Scott Von Doviak

23. 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 Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • pulp
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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24. 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 Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • 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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25. The Count of 9

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.99

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

From the world-famous creator of "Perry Mason," Erle Stanley Gardner comes another baffling case fo… read more

Similar categories in Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9 book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Philip Gefter

26. Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Philip Gefter

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning writer reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the provocative play, the groundbrea… read more

Similar categories in Philip Gefter's Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

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27. The Healing (Celebrating Black Women Writers)

By: Gayl Jones

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A new edition of a National Book Award finalist follows a black faith healer whose shrewd observati… read more

Similar categories in Gayl Jones's The Healing (Celebrating Black Women Writers) book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Understudy for Death by Charles Willeford

28. 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 Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

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

29. 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 Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

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

30. 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 Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Seed on the Wind (Hard Case Crime) by Rex Stout

31. Seed on the Wind (Hard Case Crime)

By: Rex Stout

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

One woman, four men, countless temptations on the streets of New York. This lost novel from legenda… read more

Similar categories in Rex Stout's Seed on the Wind (Hard Case Crime) book and Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

  • crime
  • fiction

21 Top fiction books like So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime) by Oakley Hall

Transform Your Habits

The Black Phone

Joe Hill

3.71

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Forever and a Death

Donald E. Westlake , Jeff Kleeman

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Turn on the Heat

Erle Stanley Gardner

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael Chabon

3.95

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22 best-selling fiction books like Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack

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Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

William Gibson

4.02

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Aurélien

Louis Aragon

4.30

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Nova

Samuel R. Delany

3.80

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Vurt (Vurt, #1)

Lauren Beukes , Jeff Noon

4.04

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