Spanish Blood
By: Raymond Chandler
3.24
Format: None pages, None
A thrilling collection of short crime stories by the master of the hard-boiled mystery. Raymond Cha…
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1. De brief voor de koning (De brief voor de koning, #1)
By: Tonke Dragt
4.17
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
De jonge Tiuri verbreekt de regels, die bepalen dat hij met niemand mag praten in de nacht voordat … read more
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- fiction
"As long as you remember that fighting evil doesn't necessarily make you good! Good and evil are each other's enemies, but they are often found close together."-Tonke Dragt, De brief voor de koning (De brief voor de koning, #1)
2. The Canterville Ghost
By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore
3.88
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Love is stronger than death is"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
3. The Odessa File
By: Frederick Forsyth
4.14
Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: a Mafia-like organi… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
4. The Getaway
By: Jim Thompson
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Doc McCoy is the most skilled criminal alive. But when for the first time in Doc's long criminal ca… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- noir
- fiction
5. The Club Dumas
By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte , Sonia Soto
0.00
Format: 798 pages, Paperback
A provocative literary thriller that playfully pays tribute to classic tales of mystery and adventu… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
6. 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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- mystery
- crime
- noir
- fiction
7. The Maltese Falcon
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a l… read more
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- mystery
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- noir
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8. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
By: James Ellroy
4.26
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- noir
- fiction
9. Motherless Brooklyn
By: Jonathan Lethem
3.87
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impu… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
10. The Killer Inside Me
By: Jim Thompson
3.60
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to … read more
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- mystery
- crime
- noir
- fiction
11. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
12. The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux, #1)
By: James Lee Burke
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with … read more
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- crime
- noir
- fiction
13. The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
By: Agatha Christie
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Wickedness...such wickedness...." The dying woman turned to Father Gorman with agony in her eyes.… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
"After all, the stupidest child can set a house on fire quite easily."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"Being in love has a very bad effect on men - it seems to addle their wits."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"People are so proud of wickedness. Odd, isn't it, that people who are good are never proud of it? That's where Christian humility comes in, I suppose. They don't even know they are good."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something LESS than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
14. 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
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- mystery
- crime
- noir
- fiction
15. The House of the Seven Gables
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more
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- fiction
16. Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
By: Richard Adams
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage an… read more
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18. The Glass Key
By: Dashiell Hammett
4.12
Format: 652 pages,
Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of S… read more
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19. The Continental Op
By: Dashiell Hammett
4.12
Format: 652 pages, Paperback
Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private ey… read more
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20. Red Harvest
By: Dashiell Hammett
4.12
Format: 652 pages, ebook
The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also… read more
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21. White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
By: James Ellroy
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant D… read more
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22. The Red Badge of Courage
By: Stephen Crane
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more
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23. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.82
Format: 38 pages, Paperback
".. Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841.… read more
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- mystery
- short stories
- crime
- fiction
"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
"I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
"There are very few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
"You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be …"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
24. The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
By: James Ellroy
4.10
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Holl… read more
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25. L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
By: James Ellroy
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoner… read more
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26. Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
By: Walter Mosley
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Los Angeles of the late 1940s, Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his j… read more
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27. Tokyo Express
By: Seichō Matsumoto
3.68
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more
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- crime
- fiction
28. Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
By: Marlon James
3.45
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
In the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to… read more
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- fiction
"What a day when a man tell me what to do."-Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
"You could have a family of one and still drive them apart."-Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
"Because at the end of a true story, there is nothing but waste."-Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
"Why should anybody want anybody? Just have nothing, just need nothing."-Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
29. Spanish Blood
By: Raymond Chandler
3.24
Format: None pages, None
A thrilling collection of short crime stories by the master of the hard-boiled mystery. Raymond Cha… read more
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- short stories
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
30. The Assistant Murderer
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.44
Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition
A classic mystery from Dashiell Hammett. read more
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- mystery
- short stories
- fiction
31. Too Many Have Lived
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.18
Format: 14 pages, Audible Audio
One of only three Sam Spade short stories, this one involves a blackmailing poet, a seductive chant… read more
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