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…
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1. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
2. 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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3. 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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4. An Easy Thing (Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, #2)
By: Paco Ignacio Taibo II , William I. Neuman
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing in… read more
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5. 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
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- mystery
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6. 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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- african american
7. Pick-Up
By: Charles Willeford
4.01
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
He Holed Up With a Helpless Lush Prowling the grimy streets of San Francisco low-life, Helen is … read more
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"No whiskey, no religion, nothing."-Charles Willeford, Pick-Up
"There is something about a man with a beard I cannot stand. No particular reason for it. Prejudice, I suppose. I feel the same way about cats."-Charles Willeford, Pick-Up
8. 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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9. Ride the Pink Horse
By: Dorothy B. Hughes
4.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sailor, a hood from Chicago, steps off a bus in a small, desert town. He is looking for someone, hi… read more
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10. Towards the End of the Morning
By: Michael Frayn
4.21
Format: 391 pages, Paperback
This tale is set in the crossword and nature-notes department of an obscure national newspaper duri… read more
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12. White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins #3)
By: Walter Mosley , Stanley Bennett Clay
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 19… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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15. Bad Boy Brawly Brown (Easy Rawlins #7)
By: Walter Mosley
4.01
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
Set in 1964, Easy is on a mission to lure Brawley Brown back to his mother. But not only is Brawley… read more
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16. Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
By: Walter Mosley
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Los Angeles of the late 1940s, Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his j… read more
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17. In a Lonely Place
By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more
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18. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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19. Burma Sahib
By: Paul Theroux
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new… read more
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20. Charlesgate Confidential
By: Scott Von Doviak
4.10
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
"CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL is terrific" - Stephen KingA breathtakingly clever, twist-filled narrativ… read more
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"I’ve got the Halloween soundtrack here somewhere,"-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential
"It was all like a movie—hell, it was a whole damn film festival."-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential
"His story was incredible—literally, in the sense that it was not credible."-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential
"Jackie wasn’t just out of my league—we weren’t even playing the same sport."-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential
21. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)
By: Walter Mosley
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more
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