9 best-selling noir books like Green Ice by Raoul Whitfield

Cover of Green Ice by Raoul Whitfield

Green Ice

By: Raoul Whitfield

3.43

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

Whitfield's first novel, and the one critics like best (Hammett loved it, but, then, Whitfield and …

If you liked the noir plot in Green Ice by Raoul Whitfield , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6) by Raymond Chandler

1. The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.19

Format: 379 pages, Paperback

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out… read more

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  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
"To say goodbye is to die a little."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

"I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

"I'm killing time and it's dying hard."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

"I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

Cover of The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic) by Muriel Spark

2. The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

By: Muriel Spark

3.65

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—i… read more

Similar categories in Muriel Spark's The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic) book and Raoul Whitfield's Green Ice

  • fiction
"it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls."

-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

"- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment …"

-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

Cover of The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette, James Brook, None, None

3. The Prone Gunman

By: Jean-Patrick Manchette , James Brook , None , None

3.61

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

Manchette at the height of his powers in a corrosive parody of "the success story." read more

Similar categories in Jean-Patrick Manchette's The Prone Gunman book and Raoul Whitfield's Green Ice

  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
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4. 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

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  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4) by John D. MacDonald

5. The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.83

Format: 28 pages,

'MacDonald had a huge influence on me . . . Reacher is like a fully detached version of Travis McGe… read more

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  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
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6. Gulf Coast Girl

By: Charles Williams

3.50

Format: 0 pages,

Originally published in hardback as Scorpion Reef. An American tanker, finds a small, abandoned boa… read more

Similar categories in Charles Williams's Gulf Coast Girl book and Raoul Whitfield's Green Ice

  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
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7. The Butterfly

By: James M. Cain

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

The Butterfly by James M. Cain was first published in 1946. It takes place among the hills and holl… read more

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  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of Night Has a Thousand Eyes by Cornell Woolrich

8. Night Has a Thousand Eyes

By: Cornell Woolrich

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Cornell Woolrich's novels define the essence of noir nihilism.-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times B… read more

Similar categories in Cornell Woolrich's Night Has a Thousand Eyes book and Raoul Whitfield's Green Ice

  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of The Crab with the Golden Claws (Tintin, #9) by Hergé

9. The Crab with the Golden Claws (Tintin, #9)

By: Hergé

4.67

Format: 88 pages,

The classic graphic novel. A can of crab meat turns out to be a small clue to a big mystery! Tintin… read more

Similar categories in Hergé's The Crab with the Golden Claws (Tintin, #9) book and Raoul Whitfield's Green Ice

  • fiction

10. Damnation Alley

By: Roger Zelazny

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Hell Tanner isn't the sort of guy you'd mistake for a hero: he's a fast-driving car thief, a smuggl… read more

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11. 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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12. The Outfit (Parker, #3)

By: Richard Stark

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the Outfit tries to kill him, Parker declares war. Ripping off the syndicate is easy, but goin… read more

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13. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

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  • fiction
"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

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. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

Similar categories in James Joyce's Ulysses book and Raoul Whitfield's Green Ice

  • fiction
"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

16. 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

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17. Stick

By: Elmore Leonard

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In Stick,an ex-con trying to go straight finds himself tempted by a high stakes, sweet-revenge scam… read more

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18. A Key to the Suite

By: John D. MacDonald

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this swift and striking novel, John D. MacDonald examines the ferment of a big-time convention -… read more

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19. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

By: Alexander Chee

4.39

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more

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"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Cover of Killer, Come Back To Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury

20. Killer, Come Back To Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury

By: Ray Bradbury

3.95

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centenary, this collection commemorates his finest crime stories – tales… read more

Similar categories in Ray Bradbury's Killer, Come Back To Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury book and Raoul Whitfield's Green Ice

  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of Green Ice by Raoul Whitfield

21. Green Ice

By: Raoul Whitfield

3.43

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

Whitfield's first novel, and the one critics like best (Hammett loved it, but, then, Whitfield and … read more

Similar categories in Raoul Whitfield's Green Ice book and Raoul Whitfield's Green Ice

  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction

13 best-selling fiction books like Green Ice by Raoul Whitfield

Transform Your Habits

The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

Raymond Chandler

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

Muriel Spark

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The Prone Gunman

Jean-Patrick Manchette , James Brook , None , None

3.61

Transform Your Habits

The Getaway

Jim Thompson

2.67

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22 Top fiction books like The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4) by John D. MacDonald

Transform Your Habits

Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23)

Richard Stark

3.89

Transform Your Habits

God Save The Child (Spenser, #2)

Robert B. Parker

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)

Robert B. Parker

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Promised Land (Spenser, #4)

Robert B. Parker

3.99

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