The Burglar
By: David Goodis
4.00
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
A dreamlike masterpiece of crime, honor, and perverse loyalty by the legendary author of Shoot the …
Want to Read $ 5.99"At three in the morning it was dead around here and the windows of the mansion were black, the mansion dark purple and solemn against the moonlit velvet, green of gently sloping lawn."-David Goodis, The Burglar
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1. The Burglar
By: David Goodis
4.00
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
A dreamlike masterpiece of crime, honor, and perverse loyalty by the legendary author of Shoot the … read more
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"At three in the morning it was dead around here and the windows of the mansion were black, the mansion dark purple and solemn against the moonlit velvet, green of gently sloping lawn."-David Goodis, The Burglar
2. Nightmare Alley
By: William Lindsay Gresham , Nick Tosches
3.83
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abje… read more
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- noir
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"Also Dad said it was a shame to go to bed early and miss everything when you could sleep late the next day and catch up..."-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley
"Beyond that elfin face, the steady eyes, there was something breathing, something that was fed blood from a tiny heart beating under pointed breasts. But is was cobweb under the fingers. Cobweb in th…"-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley
"Hoatley - First Carnival Owner: Now this creature - There he is, THE GEEK! He has puzzled the foremost scientists of Europe and America. Is he the missing link? Is he man or beast? Some have pronounc…"-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley
"The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old…"-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley
3. The Thin Man
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve h… read more
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- mystery
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4. 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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- noir
- fiction
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5. The Name of the Game Is Death (Drake, #1)
By: Dan J. Marlowe
3.87
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
"Two guys with guts and a go-to-hell-with-you-Jack regard for consequences have about three chances… read more
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7. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
By: Horace McCoy
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The marathon dance craze flourished during the 1930s, but the underside was a competition and viole… read more
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8. The Burnt Orange Heresy
By: Charles Willeford
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A new paperback edition of the neo-noir novel book critics have called Willeford's best. Fast-talki… read more
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9. 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
10. Thieves Like Us
By: Edward Anderson
3.82
Format: None pages,
"One of the great forgotten novels of the 30s." - Raymond Chandler Somewhere between the hardboiled… read more
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11. A Coffin for Dimitrios
By: Eric Ambler
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery wr… read more
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12. 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
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13. 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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15. Hangover Square
By: Patrick Hamilton
3.89
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
Hamilton (1904-1962) captures the edgy, obsessive and eventually murderous mindset of a romanticall… read more
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16. Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense
By: Sarah Weinman
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Fourteen chilling tales from the pioneering women who created the domestic suspense genre Murderous… read more
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17. The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
A couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--become the objects of Marlowe's i… read more
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18. The Bride Wore Black
By: Cornell Woolrich , William Irish
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
AMERICA'S MASTER OF SUSPENSE...FIRST IN THE DEFINITIVE SERIES OF THIS AMERICAN GENIUS No one knew w… read more
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19. Laura
By: Vera Caspary
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious… read more
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20. 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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21. Cop Hater (87th Precinct, #1)
By: Ed McBain
4.36
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
When Detective Reardon is found dead, motive is a big question mark. But when his partner becomes v… read more
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