8 must-read mystery books like The Girl with the Silver Eyes: A Tale of the Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett

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The Girl with the Silver Eyes: A Tale of the Continental Op

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.82

Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition

A San Francisco un detective viene incaricato di rintracciare un uomo scomparso dopo una lite. Nell…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Girl with the Silver Eyes: A Tale of the Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Simple Art of Murder

By: Raymond Chandler

4.13

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Contains Chandler's essay on the art of detective stories and a collection of 8 classic Chandler my… read more

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  • mystery
  • noir
"Racket beer, sonny,"

-Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder

"You know who they are?"

-Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder

"Her voice was as dead as the summer before last. (Nevada Gas)"

-Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder

"If he is a man on honor in one thing, he is that in all things."

-Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder

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2. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.95

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more

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  • mystery
  • noir
"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

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3. Inherent Vice

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon- private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally… read more

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  • mystery
  • noir
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4. Girl with Curious Hair

By: David Foster Wallace

3.62

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordina… read more

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5. Trouble Is My Business

By: Raymond Chandler

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold… read more

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6. Robert B. Parker's The Devil Wins (Jesse Stone, #14)

By: Reed Farrel Coleman

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of a huge storm, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory buil… read more

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7. The Case of the Baited Hook

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.87

Format: 309 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Who was that masked woman? That's the question plaguing the perpetually inquiring mind of Perry Mas… read more

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8. The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

A couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--become the objects of Marlowe's i… read more

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9. The Tuesday Night Club: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

4.08

Format: 96 pages,

Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems After a supper of canned lobster … read more

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10. Ride the Pink Horse

By: Dorothy B. Hughes

4.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sailor, a hood from Chicago, steps off a bus in a small, desert town. He is looking for someone, hi… read more

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11. Gravity's Rainbow

By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more

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12. The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.99

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin… read more

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13. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

By: David Foster Wallace

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the bounda… read more

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14. The Broom of the System

By: David Foster Wallace

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the Systemstunned critics and m… read more

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15. The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America

By: Larry McMurtry

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the early 1800s to the end of his life in 1917, Buffalo Bill Cody was as famous as anyone coul… read more

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16. Robert B. Parker's Damned If You Do (Jesse Stone, #12)

By: Michael Brandman

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Police Chief Jesse Stone returns in another outstanding entry in the New York Times-bestselling ser… read more

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17. The Greene Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #3)

By: S.S. Van Dine , Willard Huntington Wright

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE GREENE MURDER CASE (Mystery Classic)" is formatted for your eRea… read more

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18. Robert B. Parker's Kickback (Spenser, #43)

By: Ace Atkins

4.27

Format: 304 pages,

P.I. Spenser, knight-errant of the Back Bay, returns in this stellar addition to the iconic New Yor… read more

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19. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By: Gustave Doré , Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major… read more

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20. The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dus… read more

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21. The Case of the Buried Clock

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.24

Format: 324 pages,

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22. The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Chandler's 5th novel has Philip Marlowe going to Hollywood as he explores the underworld of glitter… read more

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23. The Souls of Black Folk

By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more

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24. The Tragedy at Freyne

By: Anthony Gilbert

4.11

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

When Sir Simon Chandos is found poisoned in his library, with a confession in front of him and a ph… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) by James Lee Burke

25. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)

By: James Lee Burke

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave’s partner and frie… read more

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  • mystery
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26. The Deceiving Look (Shepard & Gray #3)

By: Victor Methos

4.25

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Sheriff Billie Gray calls on Solomon Shepard once more to tackle an investigation into the murder o… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4) by Keigo Higashino

27. The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4)

By: Keigo Higashino

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the… read more

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  • mystery
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28. TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH

By: W. R. Shepherd

4.52

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

A classic and favorite of aviation enthusiasts for many decades. And a well liked television series… read more

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29. The Girl with the Silver Eyes: A Tale of the Continental Op

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.82

Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition

A San Francisco un detective viene incaricato di rintracciare un uomo scomparso dopo una lite. Nell… read more

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  • mystery
  • novella
  • noir
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30. The Detective O'Malley MEGAPACK®: 21 Police Procedurals

By: William MacHarg

3.93

Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition

This volume collects 21 stories featuring Detective O'Malley from the pages of Collier's. They date… read more

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31. Five Sinister Characters

By: Raymond Chandler

4.47

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Raymond Chandler. Five Sinister Characters. New York: Avon Books Murder Mystery Monthly, 1939. Firs… read more

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David Foster Wallace

4.07

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4.20

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4.20

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