11 Top crime books like Three Complete Novels: The Postman Always Rings Twice/Double Indemnity/Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain

Cover of Three Complete Novels: The Postman Always Rings Twice/Double Indemnity/Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain

Three Complete Novels: The Postman Always Rings Twice/Double Indemnity/Mildred Pierce

By: James M. Cain

4.23

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Three of the best novels of James M Cain, all in one volume, stories that encompass suspense, human…

If you liked the crime plot in Three Complete Novels: The Postman Always Rings Twice/Double Indemnity/Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Selected Novels and Short Stories by Patricia Highsmith, Joan Schenkar

1. Selected Novels and Short Stories

By: Patricia Highsmith , Joan Schenkar

4.15

Format: 644 pages, Hardcover

Patricia Highsmith's dark talents, obsessive interest in love and murder, and macabre sensibility p… read more

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  • classics
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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2. 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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  • classics
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of California Fire and Life by Don Winslow

3. California Fire and Life

By: Don Winslow

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Insurance claims investigator Jack Wade knows that the woman who died in a suspicious fire in her m… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel

4. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Don't Look Now and Other Stories

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

A married couple on holiday in Venice are caught up in a sinister series of events. A lonely school… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
"It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordina…"

-Daphne du Maurier, Don't Look Now and Other Stories

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6. Waltz into Darkness

By: Cornell Woolrich , William Irish

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

In this thrilling tale of greed and deception, Cornell Woolrich tells of middle-aged Louis Durand, … read more

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  • classics
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

7. Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

By: Agatha Christie

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of I, Claudius (Claudius, #1) by Robert Graves

8. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)

By: Robert Graves

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

9. Rear Window - Story Collection

By: Cornell Woolrich

4.12

Format: 652 pages, Paperback

The story that inspired the Alfred Hitchcock film masterpiece! Cornell Woolrich. His name represent… read more

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10. 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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11. The Unsuspected

By: Charlotte Armstrong

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE SUSPECT Luther Grandison was a name that meant many different things to many different people. … read more

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12. Starship Troopers

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.01

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

13. The Lost Daughter

By: Elena Ferrante

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more

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14. Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot, #28)

By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Fraser

2.83

Format: 212 pages, Audio CD

Mrs. McGinty is dead and everyone suspects James Bentley, her slightly shifty lodger, but Superinte… read more

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15. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

Cover of The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2) by Agatha Christie

16. The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

By: Agatha Christie

3.87

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-s… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
"Two people rarely see the same thing."

-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

"Again you have the sentiment and not the logic!"

-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

"[...] She is not for you, that one! Take it from Papa Poirot!"

-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

"Mon ami, двоє людей рідко можуть похвалитись, що бачать однакові речі"

-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

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17. 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

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
"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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18. Exhalation

By: Ted Chiang

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more

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  • fiction
"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

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19. Kismet

By: Amina Akhtar

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From Amina Akhtar comes a viciously funny thriller about wellness—the smoothies, the secrets, and t… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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20. Blacktop Wasteland

By: S.A. Cosby

4.08

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Beauregard "Bug" Montage: husband, father, honest car mechanic. But he was once known - from North … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
"The truth had a strange way of ending an argument."

-S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

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21. 56 Days

By: Catherine Ryan Howard

3.75

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

No one knew they'd moved in together. Now one of them is dead. Could this be the perfect murder? … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Dividing people into good and evil is just lazy."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

"Secrets are a different thing. They're destructive."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

"None of us know what we're capable of, if the circumstances were right. Or wrong."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

"Our robot overlords are coming regardless, but I'm not going to hold the door open for them."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

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22. Sign Here

By: Claudia Lux

3.80

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A darkly humorous, surprisingly poignant, and utterly gripping debut novel about a guy who works in… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"To breathe is miraculous."

-Claudia Lux, Sign Here

"Does it count as staying if leaving is always on the mind? How much lying does a marriage need to survive?"

-Claudia Lux, Sign Here

"It was the greatest irony of her life: how much she hated her body and how much she lived for the attention it garnered."

-Claudia Lux, Sign Here

"Love is one of these things humans experience, twist to fit their cage of mortality, and then claim to have invented. I'm not blaming you, far from it. Love was made to be coveted, and humans are not…"

-Claudia Lux, Sign Here

Cover of Three Complete Novels: The Postman Always Rings Twice/Double Indemnity/Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain

23. Three Complete Novels: The Postman Always Rings Twice/Double Indemnity/Mildred Pierce

By: James M. Cain

4.23

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Three of the best novels of James M Cain, all in one volume, stories that encompass suspense, human… read more

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  • classics
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

17 Top fiction books like Three Complete Novels: The Postman Always Rings Twice/Double Indemnity/Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain

Transform Your Habits

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Patricia Highsmith , Joan Schenkar

4.15

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The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

3.93

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California Fire and Life

Don Winslow

4.00

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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

Hilary Mantel

4.00

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The September House

Carissa Orlando

3.92

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Black Sheep

Rachel Harrison

3.60

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How to Sell a Haunted House

Grady Hendrix

3.68

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Rachel Harrison

3.85

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