17 Best mystery books like Sin Pit by Paul S. Meskil

Cover of Sin Pit by Paul S. Meskil

Sin Pit

By: Paul S. Meskil

4.05

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

She was dirty ... and hungry and cheap and demanding. But it didn't matter. She was all those thing…

If you liked the mystery plot in Sin Pit by Paul S. Meskil , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor

1. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor

4.17

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writer… read more

Similar categories in Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

"The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"We're all damned," she said, “but some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see. It’s a kind of salvation."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Cover of The Getaway by Jim Thompson

2. 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

Similar categories in Jim Thompson's The Getaway book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Too Hot to Handle by Orrie Hitt

3. Too Hot to Handle

By: Orrie Hitt

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

One of Orrie Hitt's darkest novels, Too Hot to Handle focuses on a young woman named Kay who winds … read more

Similar categories in Orrie Hitt's Too Hot to Handle book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

Cover of Sour Candy by Kealan Patrick Burke

4. Sour Candy

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

3.65

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different … read more

Similar categories in Kealan Patrick Burke's Sour Candy book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

"Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton's teeth fell out."

-Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

Cover of The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson

5. 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

Similar categories in Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Seventh (Parker, #7) by Richard Stark

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 Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • mystery
  • novels
  • 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)

Cover of Miami Blues by Elmore Leonard, Charles Willeford

7. Miami Blues

By: Elmore Leonard , Charles Willeford

4.15

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Miami Blues book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of The Green Eagle Score (Parker, #10) by Richard Stark

8. 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 Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

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

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

By: Charles Williams

3.20

Format: 144 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Charles Williams's A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17) book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Double Indemnity by James M. Cain

10. Double Indemnity

By: James M. Cain

4.06

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, o… read more

Similar categories in James M. Cain's Double Indemnity book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
"I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman."

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"They've committed a *murder*! And it's not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They're stuck with each other and they got to ride all the way to the end of …"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"There's a shark. Following the ship.' I tried not to look, but couldn't help it. I saw a flash of dirty white down in the green. We walked back to the deck chairs. Walter, we'll have to wait. Till th…"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

Cover of Deliver Me from Dallas! by Charles Willeford

11. Deliver Me from Dallas!

By: Charles Willeford

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

read more

Similar categories in Charles Willeford's Deliver Me from Dallas! book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • novels
  • crime
Cover of The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

12. The Postman Always Rings Twice

By: James M. Cain

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's Th… read more

Similar categories in James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1) by Lawrence Block

13. The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich village apartment. Prime suspect, a m… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1) book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Slayground (Parker, #14) by Richard Stark

14. Slayground (Parker, #14)

By: Richard Stark

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The Wheel of Fortune turned and Parker figured his number had finally come up. An armored car heist… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Slayground (Parker, #14) book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9) by Richard Stark

15. The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

By: Richard Stark

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When it comes to heists, Parker believes in some cardinal rules. On this job, he breaks two of them… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9) book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
"Parker spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle."

-Richard Stark, The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

16. Black Wings Has My Angel

By: Elliott Chaze

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Chaze's long-lost noir classic, a legend among noir buffs, is back in print for the first time in n… read more

Similar categories in Elliott Chaze's Black Wings Has My Angel book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

17. The Digger's Game

By: George V. Higgins

4.89

Format: 78 pages,

A riveting George V. Higgins masterpiece about Jerry Doherty and his trip to Vegas that puts him ei… read more

Similar categories in George V. Higgins's The Digger's Game book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

18. Cogan's Trade

By: George V. Higgins

4.89

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

Cogan's Trade is the top-notch crime novel rated by the New Yorker as the "best" from "the Balzac o… read more

Similar categories in George V. Higgins's Cogan's Trade book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

19. The Hot Spot

By: Charles Williams

4.57

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

A dark, brooding masterpiece of guilt, greed, and lust in a town ripe for felony. Madox wasn't all … read more

Similar categories in Charles Williams's The Hot Spot book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

Cover of The Troop by Nick Cutter

20. The Troop

By: Nick Cutter

3.84

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

Once a year, scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a three-d… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Troop book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • mystery
"Soldering iron, Max."

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"You’ve never heard of the tapeworm diet?"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"I been to hell ... I ain't afraid to go back"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"His fear was whetted to such a fine edge that he could actually feel it now: a disembodied ball of baby fingers inside his stomach, tickling him from the inside. That's what mortal terror felt like, …"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

21. A Good Man Is Hard To Find

By: Flannery O'Connor , Frederick Asals

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

A Good Man Is Hard to Findis Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor her… read more

Similar categories in Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard To Find book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

22. The Friends of Eddie Coyle

By: George V. Higgins

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop n… read more

Similar categories in George V. Higgins's The Friends of Eddie Coyle book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

Cover of Deadly Edge (Parker, #13) by Richard Stark

23. Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

By: Richard Stark

4.10

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Deadly Edge bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes sout… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Deadly Edge (Parker, #13) book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig

24. Black River Orchard

By: Chuck Wendig

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A small town is transformed by dark magic when a strange tree begins bearing magical apples in this… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's Black River Orchard book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • mystery
Cover of Post Office by Charles Bukowski

25. Post Office

By: Charles Bukowski

3.94

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life … read more

Similar categories in Charles Bukowski's Post Office book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • novels
"It began as a mistake."

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"من يراهن كثيراً يخسر حصانه ص 154"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"المحترف يذهب إلى السباقات بمفرده ص 81"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"لا تحب المرأة أن تكون في المرتبة الثانية ص 161"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

Cover of Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

26. Strangers on a Train

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.73

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • mystery
  • crime
"The word “marriage"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I know that Southern redhead type,"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

Cover of November Road by Lou Berney

27. November Road

By: Lou Berney

3.87

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desper… read more

Similar categories in Lou Berney's November Road book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • mystery
  • crime
"Lo peor de una infancia infeliz: los momentos felices ocasionales, cuando se te permitía ver por un instante la vida que podrías haber tenido."

-Lou Berney, November Road

Cover of Sin Pit by Paul S. Meskil

28. Sin Pit

By: Paul S. Meskil

4.05

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

She was dirty ... and hungry and cheap and demanding. But it didn't matter. She was all those thing… read more

Similar categories in Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit book and Paul S. Meskil's Sin Pit

  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime

11 best-selling novels books like Sin Pit by Paul S. Meskil

Transform Your Habits

The Getaway

Jim Thompson

2.67

Transform Your Habits

The Seventh (Parker, #7)

Richard Stark

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Miami Blues

Elmore Leonard , Charles Willeford

4.15

Transform Your Habits

A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17)

Charles Williams

3.20

View all the books

15 Top fiction books like Miami Blues by Elmore Leonard, Charles Willeford

Transform Your Habits

Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

Elmore Leonard

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Swag

Elmore Leonard

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Getaway

Jim Thompson

2.67

Transform Your Habits

Nothing More Than Murder

Jim Thompson

3.61

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.