The Mad and the Bad
By: James Sallis , Donald Nicholson-Smith , Jean-Patrick Manchette
3.73
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose imme…
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1. Blood's a Rover (Underworld USA, #3)
By: James Ellroy
3.93
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
America's master of noir delivers his masterpiece, a rip-roaring, devilishly wild ride through the … read more
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- noir
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"Joan took his face in her hands. The dizziness faded out. He felt his body again. Her hands steadied him. Joan said, "What do you want?" Dwight said, "I want to fall. And I want you to catch me on th…"-James Ellroy, Blood's a Rover (Underworld USA, #3)
"Scripture-pure veracity and scandal-rag content. That conjunction gives it its sizzle. You carry the seed of belief within you already. You recall the time this narrative captures and sense conspirac…"-James Ellroy, Blood's a Rover (Underworld USA, #3)
2. Fat City
By: Leonard Gardner
4.02
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human con… read more
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"Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not des…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"Out in the fog, weary, yet buoyant from the drinks, his mind dulled along with his aches and his energy returning, Tully was free of the sense of impending ordeal that had been with him for weeks. He…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
3. Sudden Death
By: Natasha Wimmer , Álvaro Enrigue
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas in the sixteenth century that co… read more
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"Tal vez todos los libros se escriben sólo porque los malos juegan con ventaja y eso es insoportable."-Natasha Wimmer, Sudden Death
"Encuerados, solo deberían alborotarnos los monstruos, y sin embargo lo que nos trastorna es lo que se asemeja a un estándar"-Natasha Wimmer, Sudden Death
"Ya no era cosa de vida o muerte, sino de victoria y derrota--valores mucho más complejos y duros de llevar porque el que pierde un duelo a espada no tiene que vivir con ello."-Natasha Wimmer, Sudden Death
"It isn't a book about Caravaggio or Quevedo, though Caravaggio and Quevedo are in the book, as are Cortés and Cuauhtémoc, and Galileo and Pius IV. Gigantic individuals facing off. All fucking, gettin…"-Natasha Wimmer, Sudden Death
4. The Mad and the Bad
By: James Sallis , Donald Nicholson-Smith , Jean-Patrick Manchette
3.73
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose imme… read more
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- mystery thriller
- classics
- france
- french literature
- fiction
- noir
- mystery
- thriller
- novels
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5. Dog Soldiers
By: Robert Stone
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse th… read more
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6. The Drowning Pool
By: Ross Macdonald
3.58
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are… read more
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7. 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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8. Don't Look at Me Like That
By: Diana Athill
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
It is the 1950s in England, where well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectabl… read more
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9. The Loser
By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio… read more
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10. To Each His Own
By: Leonardo Sciascia , Adrienne Foulke , W.S. Di Piero
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This letter is your death sentence. To avenge what you have done you will die. But what has Manno t… read more
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11. Libra
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… 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. 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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14. The Expendable Man
By: Dorothy B. Hughes
4.00
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
The critic HRF Keating chose The Expendable Manas one of his Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books. '… read more
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15. 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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16. Butcher's Crossing
By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more
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17. He Died With His Eyes Open
By: James Sallis , Derek Raymond
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
When a middle-aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on a roadside in West London, the … read more
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18. Hard Rain Falling
By: None , Don Carpenter
4.14
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more
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"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"-None, Hard Rain Falling
19. 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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20. Rent Boy
By: Gary Indiana
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more
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21. 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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