9 best-selling noir books like The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53) by Donald E. Westlake

Cover of The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53) by Donald E. Westlake

The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.26

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Originally published in 1960 as The Mercenaries. SOME PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY Mavis St. P…

If you liked the noir plot in The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53) by Donald E. Westlake , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Lemons Never Lie (Alan Grofield #4) by Richard Stark

1. Lemons Never Lie (Alan Grofield #4)

By: Richard Stark

3.85

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

When he's not pulling heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theatre in Indiana.… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Promised Land (Spenser, #4) by Robert B. Parker

2. Promised Land (Spenser, #4)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Boston PI gets tangled in Cape Cod’s criminal underworld in this Edgar Award–winning mystery fr… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death (Mitch Tobin #1) by Donald E. Westlake, Tucker Coe

3. Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death (Mitch Tobin #1)

By: Donald E. Westlake , Tucker Coe

3.94

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

Mitch Tobin is a hard-nosed, disgraced ex-cop who spends his days building a wall around his back y… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53) by Donald E. Westlake

4. The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.26

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Originally published in 1960 as The Mercenaries. SOME PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY Mavis St. P… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53) book and Donald E. Westlake's The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53)

  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Green Eagle Score (Parker, #10) by Richard Stark

5. The Green Eagle Score (Parker, #10)

By: Richard Stark

4.31

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here's Parker--planning to steal the entire payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York, with … read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Girl with the Long Green Heart (Hard Case Crime #14) by Lawrence Block

6. The Girl with the Long Green Heart (Hard Case Crime #14)

By: Lawrence Block

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for al… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

7. Grifter's Game (Hard Case Crime #1)

By: Lawrence Block

4.12

Format: 206 pages,

A conman hiding out in Atlantic City lays his life on the line for a shot at a $250,000 payoff Mona… read more

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8. The Jugger (Parker, #6)

By: Richard Stark

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Not many men knew what Parker did for a living, because what he did was steal. But Joe Sheer, a ret… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Well, it just figures," Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The technicians worked around him now as though they expected to launch him into space."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The room was full of law. Apparently somebody on Younger’s force had invited the state police to attend after all; the pack of technical men, with their cameras and chalk, powders and notebooks and l…"

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

9. The Guns of Heaven (Hard Case Crime #24)

By: Pete Hamill

3.72

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

The Barnes & Noble Review Nostradamus he isn't; but award-winning journalist Pete Hamill's 1983 pul… read more

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Cover of The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9) by Richard Stark

10. The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

By: Richard Stark

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When it comes to heists, Parker believes in some cardinal rules. On this job, he breaks two of them… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Parker spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle."

-Richard Stark, The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

11. 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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12. The Man With The Getaway Face (Parker, #2)

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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13. 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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14. The Mourner (Parker, #4)

By: Richard Stark

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The statue wore white and grieved. Parker wasn’t interested in its sentimental value. The thief car… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away."

-Richard Stark, The Mourner (Parker, #4)

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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Cover of The Handle (Parker, #8) by Richard Stark

16. The Handle (Parker, #8)

By: Richard Stark

3.96

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Baron ran a gambling island off the Texas coast in the Gulf’s blue waters. To Parker, it was ju… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Parker simply went where money was and took it away."

-Richard Stark, The Handle (Parker, #8)

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

By: Ed McBain

2.18

Format: 166 pages,

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18. 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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19. Lucky at Cards (Hard Case Crime #28)

By: Lawrence Block , Sheldon Lord

3.37

Format: 204 pages,

AT CARDS AND WITH WOMEN, BILL MAYNARD KNEW HOW TO CHEAT On the mend after getting run out of Chicag… read more

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Cover of Reckless (Reckless, #1) by Ed Brubaker

20. Reckless (Reckless, #1)

By: Ed Brubaker

4.22

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Sex, drugs, and murder in 1980s Los Angeles, and the best new twist on paperback pulp heroes since … read more

Similar categories in Ed Brubaker's Reckless (Reckless, #1) book and Donald E. Westlake's The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53)

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Lowdown Road by Scott Von Doviak

21. Lowdown Road

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

12 best-selling fiction books like The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53) by Donald E. Westlake

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Richard Stark

3.85

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Promised Land (Spenser, #4)

Robert B. Parker

3.99

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Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death (Mitch Tobin #1)

Donald E. Westlake , Tucker Coe

3.94

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The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53)

Donald E. Westlake

4.26

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Bad News (Dortmunder, #10)

Donald E. Westlake

4.01

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3.56

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Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13)

Donald E. Westlake

4.03

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James Crumley

3.74

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