14 Top crime books like Invitation to Violence by Lionel White

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Invitation to Violence

By: Lionel White

3.68

Format: 187 pages, Hardcover

Stated First Edition bound in gray cloth. A VG+ copy in a Fair dust jacket. The pages are tan and t…

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Cover of Maigret and the Headless Corpse (English and French Edition) by Georges Simenon, Eileen Ellenbogen

1. Maigret and the Headless Corpse (English and French Edition)

By: Georges Simenon , Eileen Ellenbogen

3.83

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

A decapitated male corpse, found in a Paris canal, leads Inspector Maigret to suspect the sexually … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"Could you tell me, Maigret, why plainclothes policemen always go around in twos, just like plumbers?"

-Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Headless Corpse (English and French Edition)

"Maigret had often tried to get other people, including men of experience, to admit that those who fall, especially those who have a morbid determination to descend ever lower, are almost always ideal…"

-Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Headless Corpse (English and French Edition)

"She must have been pretty once. At least, like everyone, she had been young. Now her eyes, her mouth, her whole body exuded weakness. Could it be that she was ill and waiting for her next attack? Som…"

-Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Headless Corpse (English and French Edition)

Cover of Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1) by Georges Simenon, David Bellos

2. Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

By: Georges Simenon , David Bellos

3.47

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The first novel in the famous Inspector Maigret series. What Maigret sought, and what he waited … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"Sono cose di cui non ci si vanta, cose che a parlarne farebbero sorridere e che pure richiedono una certa dose di eroismo."

-Georges Simenon, Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

"Arrivava solido come il granito, e da quel momento pareva che tutto dovesse spezzarsi contro di lui, sia che avanzasse, sia che restasse piantato sulle gambe leggermente divaricate."

-Georges Simenon, Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

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3. The Moon in the Gutter

By: David Goodis , Adrian Wootton

3.68

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

In a back street in the rough end of Philadelphia, docker William Kerrigan obsesses over the myster… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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4. The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

Format: 625 pages, Paperback

First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more

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"All for one and one for all."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

Cover of The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1) by James Crumley

5. The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)

By: James Crumley

3.74

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

An unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by wo… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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6. Dr. Adder

By: K.W. Jeter

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Set in a future where the United States has largely broken down into reluctantly cooperating enclav… read more

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7. Something About a Soldier

By: Charles Willeford

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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8. 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
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9. The Sailcloth Shroud

By: Charles Williams

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The man nobody knew much about was buried at sea. He had been middle-aged, an almost professional s… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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10. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

By: Horace McCoy

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The marathon dance craze flourished during the 1930s, but the underside was a competition and viole… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Night at the Crossroads (Maigret #7) by Georges Simenon, Linda Coverdale

11. The Night at the Crossroads (Maigret #7)

By: Georges Simenon , Linda Coverdale

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Georges Simenon's riveting tale of deception in an isolated community, part of Penguin's series of … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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12. The Book of Skulls

By: Robert Silverberg

4.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

Seeking the immortality promised in an ancient manuscript, The Book of Skulls, four friends, colleg… read more

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13. Shoot the Piano Player

By: David Goodis

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs ou… read more

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14. Adventures in the Screen Trade

By: William Goldman

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-wi… read more

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15. Let's Go Play at the Adams'

By: Mendal W. Johnson

3.42

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Surely, it was only a game. In the orderly, pleasant world Barbara inhabited, nice children -- and … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

16. 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

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17. Nobody's Angel (Hard Case Crime, #65)

By: Jack Clark

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

While Chicago cabbie Eddie Miles drives the city streets at midnight, two killers--one targeting pr… read more

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18. Dark Entries

By: Robert Aickman

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sewn signatures, printed on 110gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in bergundy wibalin cloth … read more

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19. The Gutter and the Grave (Hard Case Crime #15)

By: Ed McBain

2.18

Format: 166 pages,

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20. Maigret's Dead Man: Inspector Maigret #29

By: Georges Simenon

3.33

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret s… read more

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21. The Big Kiss-Off

By: Day Keene

4.00

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

"Cade had come home to the Gulf country to find murder waiting, and queer terror." read more

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22. Maigret si diverte

By: Georges Simenon , Valeria Fucci

3.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sui giornali del mattino non c'era nulla. Si accontentavano di riproporre, con minori dettagli, qua… read more

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23. The Long Saturday Night

By: Charles Williams

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

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24. 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 Call Me a Cab by Donald E. Westlake

25. 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

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage by Nick de Semlyen

26. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

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27. The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By

By: Georges Simenon

3.81

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Kees Popinga is an average man, a solid citizen who might enjoy a game of chess in the evening. But… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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28. Understudy for Death

By: Charles Willeford

3.20

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Charles Willeford's legendary lost novel, unavailable since its original publication in 1961.AN UNF… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Aground (John Ingram, #1) by Charles   Williams

29. Aground (John Ingram, #1)

By: Charles Williams

3.67

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A classy blond, a beautiful yacht, an island in the Bahamas -- every man's dream. But for Ingram it… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Killer is Mine (Ed Rivers #1) by Talmage Powell

30. The Killer is Mine (Ed Rivers #1)

By: Talmage Powell

3.94

Format: 147 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The dirtiest killer of the year was the man private investigator Ed Rivers had to save from the cha… read more

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31. Invitation to Violence

By: Lionel White

3.68

Format: 187 pages, Hardcover

Stated First Edition bound in gray cloth. A VG+ copy in a Fair dust jacket. The pages are tan and t… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

14 best-selling mystery books like Invitation to Violence by Lionel White

Transform Your Habits

Maigret and the Headless Corpse (English and French Edition)

Georges Simenon , Eileen Ellenbogen

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

Georges Simenon , David Bellos

3.47

Transform Your Habits

The Moon in the Gutter

David Goodis , Adrian Wootton

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)

James Crumley

3.74

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Quarry's Ex (Quarry #10)

Max Allan Collins

3.83

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Donald E. Westlake , Tucker Coe

3.94

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The Wrong Quarry (Quarry #11)

Max Allan Collins

4.00

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Erle Stanley Gardner

4.33

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