16 Top crime books like Miami Blues by Elmore Leonard, Charles Willeford

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Miami Blues

By: Elmore Leonard , Charles Willeford

4.15

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room…

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1. Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

By: Elmore Leonard

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Ordell Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"He sat in the living room in the dark, an expert at waiting, a nineteen-year veteran of it, waiting for people who failed to appear, missed court dates because they forgot or didn't care, and took of…"

-Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

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2. Swag

By: Elmore Leonard

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This "brilliant caper" (New York Times) from bestselling author Elmore Leonard is a rollicking tale… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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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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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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4. Nothing More Than Murder

By: Jim Thompson

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Joe Wilmot can't stand his wife Elizabeth. But he sure loves her movie theater. It's a modest estab… read more

Similar categories in Jim Thompson's Nothing More Than Murder book and Elmore Leonard's Miami Blues

  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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5. Savage Night

By: Jim Thompson

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Jake Winroy had no looks, no education, and little else before he'd worked his way to the top of a … read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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6. 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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  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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7. The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)

By: Chester Himes

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

When Harlemites set about each other with knives, it's an everyday kind of happening. But when a wh… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
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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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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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9. Miami Blues

By: Elmore Leonard , Charles Willeford

4.15

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Miami Blues book and Elmore Leonard's Miami Blues

  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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10. The Big Bounce (Jack Ryan, #1)

By: Elmore Leonard

3.30

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Jack Ryan always wanted to play pro ball. But he couldn't hit a curveball, so he turned his attenti… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's The Big Bounce (Jack Ryan, #1) book and Elmore Leonard's Miami Blues

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)

By: Chester Himes

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Rage in Harlemis a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling N… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of Get Shorty (Chili Palmer, #1) by Elmore Leonard

12. Get Shorty (Chili Palmer, #1)

By: Elmore Leonard

3.95

Format: None pages,

Mob-connected loan shark Chili Palmer is sick of the Miami grind--plus his "friends" have a bad hab… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty (Chili Palmer, #1) book and Elmore Leonard's Miami Blues

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1) by James Ellroy

13. 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

Similar categories in James Ellroy's Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1) book and Elmore Leonard's Miami Blues

  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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14. 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

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Freaky Deaky book and Elmore Leonard's Miami Blues

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

15. When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (Matthew Scudder, #6)

By: Lawrence Block

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Downing a bourbon or two with a couple of cronies, Scudder witnesses a heist. The Morrisey brothers… read more

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16. Hit Man (Keller, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Keller is an assassin - he is paid by the job and works for a mysterious man who nominates hits and… read more

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

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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18. Gold Coast

By: Elmore Leonard

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Lean, mean, darkly funny." --Boston Globe "A zingy thriller by the master of hard-boiled suspense… read more

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19. 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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20. 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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21. Dark Passage

By: David Goodis , None

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Paperback

Sentenced to life in San Quentin for the alleged murder of his wife, Vince Parry escapes in a despe… read more

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22. Maximum Bob

By: Elmore Leonard

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"Hilarious....Strange and risky....A right-on, pitch perfect novel, with wide social scope, comic g… read more

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23. 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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24. The Chill

By: Ross Macdonald

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In The Chilla distraught young man hires Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has … read more

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25. Bandits

By: Elmore Leonard

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

"Almost unbearable suspense. Leonard has produced another winner." --People A wild ride with "the c… read more

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26. Pop. 1280

By: Jim Thompson

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest cri… read more

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27. A Hell of a Woman

By: Jim Thompson

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Frank "Dolly" Dillon has a job he hates, working sales and collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores, a wife… read more

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28. 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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29. Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the iconic funnymen who ruled '80s Hollywood—Bill Murray, Steve Mart… read more

Similar categories in Nick de Semlyen's Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever book and Elmore Leonard's Miami Blues

"Sometimes you gotta say "What the fuck". If you can't say it, you can't do it."

-Nick de Semlyen, Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever

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30. The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

By: Sam Wasson

4.09

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelator… read more

Similar categories in Sam Wasson's The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood book and Elmore Leonard's Miami Blues

  • crime
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31. Dietrich

By: Don Winslow

3.52

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Gritty and suspenseful, Dietrich is a hard-boiled whodunnit from Audible Award-winning and internat… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's Dietrich book and Elmore Leonard's Miami Blues

  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

15 Top fiction books like Miami Blues by Elmore Leonard, Charles Willeford

Transform Your Habits

Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

Elmore Leonard

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Swag

Elmore Leonard

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Getaway

Jim Thompson

2.67

Transform Your Habits

Nothing More Than Murder

Jim Thompson

3.61

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26 best-selling audiobook books like Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever by Nick de Semlyen

Transform Your Habits

The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir

William Friedkin

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Thanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be

Joel McHale , Brad Stevens , Boyd Vico

3.40

Transform Your Habits

You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation

Susannah Gora

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

4.03

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