21 Top fiction books like The King in Yellow - a Philip Marlowe / Steve Grayce Short Story (Steve Grayce) by Raymond Chandler

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The King in Yellow - a Philip Marlowe / Steve Grayce Short Story (Steve Grayce)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.28

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

The short story by Raymond Chandler begins with a musician waking up the whole floor in a hotel lat…

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1. Den nionde graven (Fabian Risk, #2)

By: Stefan Ahnhem

3.85

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Justitieministern lämnar riksdagen efter en hård debatt. Han använder den bakre utgången för att un… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
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2. The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.19

Format: 206 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
"The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature."

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

"It symbolizes neither one nor the other, but a mixture of the two without priority"

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

"The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides."

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

"Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser entendido. Eso es lo que nos hambre hombres."

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

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3. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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  • fiction
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

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4. The Thin Man

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve h… read more

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  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
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5. 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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  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
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6. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)

By: James Ellroy

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more

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  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4) by Jo Nesbø, Don Bartlett

7. Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4)

By: Jo Nesbø , Don Bartlett

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Detective Harry Hole must use his maverick methods once again as he investigates a slew of brutal b… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
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8. Flaggermusmannen (Harry Hole, #1)

By: Jo Nesbø , Don Bartlett

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

Politimannen Harry Hole er i Sydney for a bista australsk politi i etterforskningen av drapet pa en… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction

9. Resurrection Men (Inspector Rebus, #13)

By: Ian Rankin

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of refor… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
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10. A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Sco… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
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11. 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

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  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
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12. Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

By: James Ellroy

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can't stand music, or any loud sounds. He's got a beautiful wife, … read more

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  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction

13. Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)

By: Richard Adams

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage an… read more

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14. 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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15. The Robots of Dawn (Robot #3)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonizatio… read more

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16. White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)

By: James Ellroy

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant D… read more

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17. Suicide Hill (Lloyd Hopkins, #3)

By: James Ellroy

3.37

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins is the most brilliant homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police… read more

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18. Because the Night (Lloyd Hopkins, #2)

By: James Ellroy

3.37

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pa… read more

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19. Different Seasons

By: Stephen King

4.21

Format: 391 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A "hypnotic" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas from Stephen King bound t… read more

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20. Nana

By: Émile Zola

3.84

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

Wenn die üppige blonde Nana auf der Bühne des Pariser Varietétheaters steht, spürt jeder: sie hat k… read more

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  • fiction
"The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time."

-Émile Zola, Nana

"A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground."

-Émile Zola, Nana

"Kalau kau sendiri tidak senang melakukan sesuatu, itu bukan alasan untuk mencegah orang lain menyukainya."

-Émile Zola, Nana

"The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too."

-Émile Zola, Nana

21. The Complete Robot (Robot #0.3)

By: Isaac Asimov

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the definitive anthology of Asimov's stunning visions of a robotic future... … read more

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22. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.82

Format: 38 pages, Paperback

".. Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841.… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"There are very few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be …"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

23. The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)

By: James Ellroy

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Holl… read more

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24. The Exorcist

By: William Peter Blatty

4.20

Format: 385 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Georgetown, Washington D.C. Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficu… read more

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  • fiction
"Keep away. The sow is mine."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"The child was slender as fleeting hope."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"The child was slender as a fleeting hope."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"In forgetting, they were trying to remember"

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

25. L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)

By: James Ellroy

3.66

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoner… read more

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26. First Person Singular: Stories

By: Haruki Murakami

3.54

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Mura… read more

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  • fiction
"Hätte ich auf dem Jupiter umsteigen sollen?"

-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

"It’s important in life to get used to losing."

-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

"A circle that has many centers but no circumference"

-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

"Nichts, was leicht zu haben ist, besitzt einen Wert."

-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

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27. The Chestnut Man

By: Søren Sveistrup

4.21

Format: 519 pages, Hardcover

If you find one, he’s already found you. A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen. His callin… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
"Os mortos não podem fazer sombra aos vivos."

-Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man

"(...) a tristeza é um amor que ficou sem casa, e temos de aprender a viver com ela e a seguir em frente."

-Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man

"- Ninguém sabe. Talvez esteja apenas perdida. Às vezes as pessoas perdem-se e têm dificuldade em encontrar o caminho de casa. Mas, se ela estiver perdida, vamos encontrá-la."

-Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man

"(...) É uma coisa pequena, mas é importante. Os mortos não podem fazer sombra aos vivos. Foi o que lhe disseram os psicólogos e terapeutas, e todas as fibras do seu corpo lhe dizem que eles têm razão."

-Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man

Cover of Knife (Harry Hole, #12) by Jo Nesbø

28. Knife (Harry Hole, #12)

By: Jo Nesbø

4.27

Format: 531 pages, Hardcover

'Nesbo is one of the best thriller writers on the planet' Daily Express A man like Harry had bet… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
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29. The Assistant Murderer

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.44

Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition

A classic mystery from Dashiell Hammett. read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Too Many Have Lived by Dashiell Hammett

30. Too Many Have Lived

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.18

Format: 14 pages, Audible Audio

One of only three Sam Spade short stories, this one involves a blackmailing poet, a seductive chant… read more

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  • fiction
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31. The King in Yellow - a Philip Marlowe / Steve Grayce Short Story (Steve Grayce)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.28

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

The short story by Raymond Chandler begins with a musician waking up the whole floor in a hotel lat… read more

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  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
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4.19

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3.72

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