24 Best crime books like Double Down by Max Allan Collins

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Double Down

By: Max Allan Collins

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Veteran thief Nolan tangles with a skyjacker and vigilante in two full-length novels from Grandmast…

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Cover of The Black Ice Score (Parker, #11) by Richard Stark

1. The Black Ice Score (Parker, #11)

By: Richard Stark

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them t… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Black Ice Score (Parker, #11) book and Max Allan Collins's Double Down

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

2. 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 Max Allan Collins's Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Maigret at the Coroner's by Georges Simenon, Frances Keene

3. Maigret at the Coroner's

By: Georges Simenon , Frances Keene

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Maigret is touring the US to observe American methods. No one expects anything of him except to dri… read more

Similar categories in Georges Simenon's Maigret at the Coroner's book and Max Allan Collins's Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime
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4. 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 Max Allan Collins's Double Down

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

5. 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 Double Down

  • mystery
  • 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)

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6. 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 Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime
"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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7. 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 Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime
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8. Fifty-to-One (Hard Case Crime #50)

By: Charles Ardai

4.80

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Charles Ardai's Fifty-to-One (Hard Case Crime #50) book and Max Allan Collins's Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime

9. 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 Max Allan Collins's Double Down

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

10. 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 Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime
"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)

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

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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Cover of The Sour Lemon Score (Parker, #12) by Donald E. Westlake, Richard Stark

13. The Sour Lemon Score (Parker, #12)

By: Donald E. Westlake , Richard Stark

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name’s Parker, you expect nothing less. Un… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's The Sour Lemon Score (Parker, #12) book and Max Allan Collins's Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime

14. 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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15. 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 Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime
"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)

16. The Lions of Lucerne (Scot Harvath, #1)

By: Brad Thor

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

On the snowy Utah slopes, thirty Secret Service agents are viciously executed and the vacationing p… read more

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

17. 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 Double Down

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

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

18. 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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19. 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

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20. Fools Die On Friday

By: Erle Stanley Gardner , A.A. Fair

3.73

Format: 112 pages,

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21. Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

By: Michael Connelly

4.56

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning ar… read more

Similar categories in Michael Connelly's Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7) book and Max Allan Collins's Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime
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 Max Allan Collins's Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Five Decembers by James Kestrel

23. 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 Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime
"Aishitemasu"

-James Kestrel, Five Decembers

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

-James Kestrel, Five Decembers

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24. 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 Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Masked Prey (Lucas Davenport, #30) by John Sandford

25. Masked Prey (Lucas Davenport, #30)

By: John Sandford

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Lucas Davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of U.S. poli… read more

Similar categories in John Sandford's Masked Prey (Lucas Davenport, #30) book and Max Allan Collins's Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime
"Hostas were the hot fudge sundaes of the deer world."

-John Sandford, Masked Prey (Lucas Davenport, #30)

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26. The Dead Man of Storr (The Misty Isle #2)

By: J.M. Dalgliesh

4.39

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When the owner of a Portree gallery is found dead, lying in the snow at the foot of the Storr, D.I.… read more

Similar categories in J.M. Dalgliesh's The Dead Man of Storr (The Misty Isle #2) book and Max Allan Collins's Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime
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27. 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 Max Allan Collins's Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of One Deadly Eye (Doc Ford #27) by Randy Wayne White

28. One Deadly Eye (Doc Ford #27)

By: Randy Wayne White

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

After the deadliest hurricane to hit Sanibel Island in a century, Doc Ford must stop a gang of thie… read more

Similar categories in Randy Wayne White's One Deadly Eye (Doc Ford #27) book and Max Allan Collins's Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime
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29. Dolphin Junction: Stories

By: Mick Herron

4.02

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Now, for the first time, Mick Herron’s short fiction has been collected into one volume. In Dolphin… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Dolphin Junction: Stories book and Max Allan Collins's Double Down

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

30. 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 Max Allan Collins's Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Double Down by Max Allan Collins

31. Double Down

By: Max Allan Collins

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Veteran thief Nolan tangles with a skyjacker and vigilante in two full-length novels from Grandmast… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's Double Down book and Max Allan Collins's Double Down

  • mystery
  • crime

24 Best mystery books like Double Down by Max Allan Collins

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The Black Ice Score (Parker, #11)

Richard Stark

3.70

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Castle in the Air

Donald E. Westlake

3.50

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Maigret at the Coroner's

Georges Simenon , Frances Keene

4.83

Transform Your Habits

Turn on the Heat

Erle Stanley Gardner

4.18

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Think Twice (Myron Bolitar, #12)

Harlan Coben

4.34

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Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3)

John Sandford

4.45

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Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3)

John Grisham

4.26

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First Frost (Walt Longmire, #20)

Craig Johnson

4.37

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