9 Top noir books like Try the Girl by Raymond Chandler

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Try the Girl

By: Raymond Chandler

3.64

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

"Try the Girl" tells of a huge man who was just released from prison and is looking for his old gir…

If you liked the noir plot in Try the Girl by Raymond Chandler , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Black Mask Audio Magazine, Vol. 1: Classic Hard-Boiled Tales from the Original Black Mask (Hollywood Theater of the Ear)(Library Edition) by Paul Cain, William Cole, Hugh B. Cave, Frederick Nebel, Yuri Rasovsky, None

1. Black Mask Audio Magazine, Vol. 1: Classic Hard-Boiled Tales from the Original Black Mask (Hollywood Theater of the Ear)(Library Edition)

By: Paul Cain , William Cole , Hugh B. Cave , Frederick Nebel , Yuri Rasovsky , None

3.61

Format: 1 pages, MP3 CD

In the 1930s and 40s, Black Mask helped reshape the modern mystery genre with its hard-boiled detec… read more

Similar categories in Paul Cain's Black Mask Audio Magazine, Vol. 1: Classic Hard-Boiled Tales from the Original Black Mask (Hollywood Theater of the Ear)(Library Edition) book and Raymond Chandler's Try the Girl

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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2. You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

By: Ian Fleming

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Ian Fleming’s twelfth James Bond novel. The tragic end to James Bond’s last mission – courtesy o… read more

Similar categories in Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12) book and Raymond Chandler's Try the Girl

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face"

-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

"I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite…"

-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

"007: Be an angle, Penny, and ring down to Mary and tell her she's got to get out of whatever she's doing tonight. I'm taking her out to dinner. Scotts. Tell her we'll have our first roast grouse of t…"

-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

"He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions that would have broken the normal human being. He knew how a desperate situation would bring out tho…"

-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

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3. 361

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.56

Format: 207 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray Kelly woke up in the hospita… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's 361 book and Raymond Chandler's Try the Girl

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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4. 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

Similar categories in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon book and Raymond Chandler's Try the Girl

  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction

5. Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2)

By: Lawrence Block

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Small-time stoolie, Jake "The Spinner" Jablon, made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers, … read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2) book and Raymond Chandler's Try the Girl

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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6. The Vampyre; A Tale

By: John William Polidori

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more

Similar categories in John William Polidori's The Vampyre; A Tale book and Raymond Chandler's Try the Girl

  • fiction
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7. 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 Raymond Chandler's Try the Girl

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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8. Nightmare Town

By: Dashiell Hammett , William F. Nolan , Colin Dexter

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Introduced by Colin Dexter, one of England's greatest writers of detective fiction, here are twenty… read more

Similar categories in Dashiell Hammett's Nightmare Town book and Raymond Chandler's Try the Girl

  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
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9. The Moving Target

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshi… read more

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target book and Raymond Chandler's Try the Girl

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of I, the Jury  (Mike Hammer,  #1) by Mickey Spillane

10. 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

Similar categories in Mickey Spillane's I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1) book and Raymond Chandler's Try the Girl

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

12. The Galton Case

By: Ross Macdonald

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetw… read more

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13. 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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14. The Dain Curse

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages, Paperback

Everything about the Leggett diamond heist indicated to the Continental Op that it was an inside jo… read more

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15. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.50

Format: 262 pages, ebook

The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more

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16. Black Mask 9: The Corpse Didn't Kick: And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

By: Eric Conger , Otto Penzler , Alan Winter

4.15

Format: 222 pages, Audio CD

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Maskpublished pulp crime ficti… read more

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17. Fast One

By: David Bowman , Paul Cain

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

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18. Clandestine

By: James Ellroy

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950's -- a town blinded to i… read more

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19. Black Mask 1: Doors in the Dark: And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine

By: Otto Penzler

3.84

Format: 523 pages, Audio CD

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Maskpublished pulp crime ficti… read more

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20. 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

Similar categories in Seichō Matsumoto's Tokyo Express book and Raymond Chandler's Try the Girl

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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21. Try the Girl

By: Raymond Chandler

3.64

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

"Try the Girl" tells of a huge man who was just released from prison and is looking for his old gir… read more

Similar categories in Raymond Chandler's Try the Girl book and Raymond Chandler's Try the Girl

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

13 must-read fiction books like Try the Girl by Raymond Chandler

Transform Your Habits

Black Mask Audio Magazine, Vol. 1: Classic Hard-Boiled Tales from the Original Black Mask (Hollywood Theater of the Ear)(Library Edition)

Paul Cain , William Cole , Hugh B. Cave , Frederick Nebel , Yuri Rasovsky , None

3.61

Transform Your Habits

You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

Ian Fleming

3.75

Transform Your Habits

361

Donald E. Westlake

3.56

Transform Your Habits

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

3.93

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Homicide Trinity (Nero Wolfe, #36)

Rex Stout , Stephen Greenleaf

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

Raymond Chandler

4.10

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The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

Raymond Chandler

4.19

Transform Your Habits

361

Donald E. Westlake

3.56

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