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…
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1. 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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"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
2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s & 40s
By: William Lindsay Gresham , Cornell Woolrich , Robert Polito , James M. Cain , Horace McCoy , Kenneth Fearing , Edward Anderson
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
The first collection in a two-volume set celebrating American crime fiction contains classic novels… read more
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6. 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
7. Dead End Girl (Violet Darger Book 1)
By: Tim McBain , L.T. Vargus
4.37
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Her body is broken. Wrapped in plastic. Dumped on the side of the road. She is the first. There wil… read more
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8. The Postman Always Rings Twice
By: James M. Cain
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's Th… read more
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9. 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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10. Black Wings Has My Angel
By: Elliott Chaze
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Chaze's long-lost noir classic, a legend among noir buffs, is back in print for the first time in n… read more
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11. Deadline at Dawn
By: Cornell Woolrich , William Irish
3.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
They meet after midnight in a dance hall: two young innocents from the midwest, trapped in New York… read more
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12. Shoot the Piano Player
By: David Goodis
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs ou… read more
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13. 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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14. I Married a Dead Man
By: Cornell Woolrich
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pregnant, abandoned by her slimy husband and destitute, Helen Georgesson boards a train going west.… read more
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15. Out of Bounds (Inspector Karen Pirie, #4)
By: Val McDermid
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, whose gripping,… read more
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16. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to… read more
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17. The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Chandler's 5th novel has Philip Marlowe going to Hollywood as he explores the underworld of glitter… read more
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18. The Day of the Locust
By: Nathanael West , Alfred Kazin
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Day of the Locustis a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream … read more
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19. 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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20. The Big Clock
By: Nicholas Christopher , Kenneth Fearing
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for a New York media co… read more
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21. Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)
By: Gabriel F.W. Koch
4.30
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
Then comes the brutal announcement that his pregnant fiancée has committed suicide. Marlowe simply … read more
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"Death is the ultimate test of faith."-Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)
"You sound like you’re enjoying my suffering."-Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)
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"The verdict got both the fish and me off the hook."-Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)
22. Girl Missing (Kaitlyn Carr #1)
By: Kate Gable
3.93
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
Don’t lie to me… When her 13-year-old sister vanishes on her way back from a friend’s house, Det… read more
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23. The Horror at Murden Cove (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller #4)
By: D.D. Black
4.39
Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition
A triple homicide. A blind witness. What is the sound of evil? Late one night, two young couples… read more
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24. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
By: Don Winslow
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more
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25. Everybody Knows
By: Jordan Harper
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more
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"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
26. Drawpoint (Blake Brier #4)
By: L.T. Ryan
4.49
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
If you're going to take aim at Blake Brier, you better not miss. New from Wall Street Journal bests… read more
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27. Keeping Secrets (Sam Mason Mystery)
By: L.A. Dobbs
4.22
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
When long-time White Rock resident Mike Donnelly is found dead at his hunting camp, it appears as i… read more
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28. Grimm Up North (DCI Harry Grimm, #1)
By: David J. Gatward
4.25
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to Wensleydale, where the cheese is famous, the scenery beautiful, and the locals have murd… read more
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29. Like Lions (Bull Mountain, #2)
By: Brian Panowich
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Clayton Burroughs is sheriff of Bull Mountain and last surviving member of the brutal and blood-ste… read more
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30. One Lost Soul (Hidden Norfolk #1)
By: J.M. Dalgliesh
4.08
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
The darkest secrets often hide in plain sight… When a body is found on a lonely cliff top path, … read more
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31. Murder Board (Boston Crime Thriller #1)
By: Brian Christopher Shea
4.18
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
A Boston homicide detective sets out to find a young girl’s killer—and confronts the dark world of … read more
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