If you liked the crime plot in Cape Fear by John D. MacDonald , here is a list of 13 books like this:
1. Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23)
By: Richard Stark
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes mystery master Donald E. Westlake is the author of uproarious crime capers. Sometimes he … read more
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- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
2. Marathon Man
By: William Goldman
4.11
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Tom "Babe" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and acad… read more
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- classics
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
"Is it safe?"-William Goldman, Marathon Man
"It must have been fifty seconds before Doc died. Long time."-William Goldman, Marathon Man
3. 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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- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- fiction
4. The Drowning Pool
By: Ross Macdonald
3.58
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
5. Backflash (Parker, #18)
By: Richard Stark
4.10
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Following on the heels of Comeback, a New York Times Notable Book, a new Parker adventure finds the… read more
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- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
"The shirtsleeved bald bartender was tall and fat, looking like a retired cop who'd gone to seed the day his papers had come through. At the bar, muttering together about sports and politics—other peo…"-Richard Stark, Backflash (Parker, #18)
6. Sliver
By: Ira Levin
4.16
Format: 144 pages,
Kay Norris, a successful single woman of thirty-nine, moves into the posh Carnegie Hill district of… read more
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- suspense
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
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- classics
- suspense
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
8. The Seventh (Parker, #7)
By: Richard Stark
4.08
Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Why not? Just because no one had ever tried it before? What better place for a heist, if it was … read more
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- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
"They had this block to themselves. The windows of all the tenements on both sides were marked with the white X of urban renewal; they stood nearly empty, waiting for the wreckers. Within them the coc…"-Richard Stark, The Seventh (Parker, #7)
9. Psycho
By: Robert Bloch
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy … read more
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- classics
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
10. The Lodger
By: Marie Belloc Lowndes
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Somewhere in London a madman was at large. And then one night there came a knock at the door of a q… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
11. The Wycherly Woman
By: Ross Macdonald
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
12. Freaky Deaky
By: Elmore Leonard
3.90
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
"Wonderfully wicked...a nonstop, pedal-to-the-metal romp." --Chicago Tribune Over-the-hill former c… read more
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- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- fiction
13. The Sour Lemon Score (Parker, #12)
By: Donald E. Westlake , Richard Stark
4.08
Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name’s Parker, you expect nothing less. Un… read more
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- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
14. The Blunderer
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
For two years, Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. She… read more
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15. 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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16. The Way Some People Die
By: Ross Macdonald
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Arch… read more
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17. The Ivory Grin
By: Ross Macdonald
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track d… read more
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18. The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi: Detective Stories of Old Edo
By: Kidō Okamoto , Ian M. MacDonald
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
That year, quite a shocking incident occurred. . . . So reminisces old Hanshichi in a story from on… read more
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19. The Score (Parker, #5)
By: Richard Stark
3.93
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
It was an impossible crime: knock off a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores in on… read more
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20. The Old Man in the Corner
By: Emmuska Orczy
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A nameless, eccentric old man, sitting in the corner of a cozy London tea shop, uses pure deduction… read more
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21. The Night of the Hunter
By: Davis Grubb
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Inspired by serial killer Harry Powers, "The Bluebeard of Quiet Dell," who was hung in 1932 for his… read more
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