17 best-selling noir books like The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30) by Gil Brewer

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The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30)

By: Gil Brewer

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Mass Market Paperback

If you liked the noir plot in The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30) by Gil Brewer , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. The Peddler

By: Richard S. Prather , None

3.64

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

In the cutthroat world of organized crime, Tony Romero was headed straight for the top. His territo… read more

Similar categories in Richard S. Prather's The Peddler book and Gil Brewer's The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30)

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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2. The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.01

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

BIG MAN ON CAMPUS Crime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Alla… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's The First Quarry (Quarry #8) book and Gil Brewer's The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30)

  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Hi my name's Quarry. I'm in town to blow your favorite professor's brains out. Can you tell me whether you're planning to stop by his place this afternoon, so I can pick a time when I wouldn't have t…"

-Max Allan Collins, The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

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3. Getting Off

By: Lawrence Block , Jill Emerson

3.35

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

So this girl walks into a bar... ...and when she walks out there’s a man with her. She goes to b… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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4. Deadly Beloved

By: Max Allan Collins

3.53

Format: 203 pages, Mass Market Paperback

While investigating the case of Marcy Addwatter, who killed her husband and his lover, P.I. Ms. Mic… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's Deadly Beloved book and Gil Brewer's The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30)

  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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5. Songs of Innocence (John Blake #2)

By: Richard Aleas

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

While investigating the apparent suicide of a beautiful college student with a double life, detecti… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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6. Kill Now, Pay Later (Ben Gates #3)

By: Robert Terrall

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Hired to guard the gifts at an upper-class wedding, Ben Gates, believing this to be a simple assign… read more

Similar categories in Robert Terrall's Kill Now, Pay Later (Ben Gates #3) book and Gil Brewer's The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30)

  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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7. 361

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.56

Format: 207 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray Kelly woke up in the hospita… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's 361 book and Gil Brewer's The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30)

  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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8. Little Girl Lost (John Blake #1)

By: Richard Aleas

3.78

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Miranda Sugarman was supposed to be in the Midwest, working as an eye doctor. So how did she wind u… read more

Similar categories in Richard Aleas's Little Girl Lost (John Blake #1) book and Gil Brewer's The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30)

  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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9. Blackmailer (Hard Case Crime #32)

By: George Axelrod

4.15

Format: None pages,

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  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. Choke Hold (Angel Dare #2)

By: Christa Faust

3.63

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

INSIDE THE WORLD OF MIXED MARTIAL ARTS--AND MURDER... Angel Dare went into Witness Protection to es… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30)

By: Gil Brewer

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Comedy is Finished (Hard Case Crime #105) by Donald E. Westlake

12. The Comedy is Finished (Hard Case Crime #105)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and t… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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13. The Girl with the Long Green Heart (Hard Case Crime #14)

By: Lawrence Block

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for al… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's The Girl with the Long Green Heart (Hard Case Crime #14) book and Gil Brewer's The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Borderline (Hard Case Crime #115) by Lawrence Block, Don Holliday

14. Borderline (Hard Case Crime #115)

By: Lawrence Block , Don Holliday

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

THE SCORCHING PULP NOVEL BY LAWRENCE BLOCK, AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 50 YEARS! On the border… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's Borderline (Hard Case Crime #115) book and Gil Brewer's The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30)

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

15. The Last Quarry (Quarry #7)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.10

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Coming out of retirement to do one last--and extremely lucrative--job for a media magnate, professi… read more

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16. Grifter's Game (Hard Case Crime #1)

By: Lawrence Block

4.12

Format: 206 pages,

A conman hiding out in Atlantic City lays his life on the line for a shot at a $250,000 payoff Mona… read more

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17. Quarry's Choice (Quarry #12)

By: Max Allan Collins

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Quarry is a pro in the murder business. When the man he works for becomes a target himself, Quarry … read more

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18. A Diet of Treacle (Hard Case Crime #39)

By: Lawrence Block , Sheldon Lord

3.22

Format: 402 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Drug deals lead to murder after a beautiful college student gets involved with a stoner and his soc… read more

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19. Money Shot (Angel Dare #1)

By: Christa Faust

2.62

Format: None pages,

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20. Quarry in the Middle (Quarry #9)

By: Max Allan Collins

5.00

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

The sequel to "The First Quarry" and "The Last Quarry." When a pair of warring crime families each … read more

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21. Robbie's Wife (Hard Case Crime #29)

By: Russell Hill

3.58

Format: 376 pages,

ON A FARM ON THE EDGE OF NOWHERE LIE THE SEEDS OF MURDER Jack Stone fled Los Angeles, a failed marr… read more

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22. The Cocktail Waitress (Hard Case Crime #109)

By: James M. Cain

5.00

Format: None pages,

Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is f… read more

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23. Fright (Hard Case Crime #34)

By: Cornell Woolrich

3.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A long lost noir masterpiece from the father of Noir fiction. After strangling his blackmailing mis… read more

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24. 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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25. Help, I Am Being Held Prisoner

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Westlake pens another comedy caper of seven men who have the perfect alibi--they are in jail. The c… read more

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26. The Score (Parker, #5)

By: Richard Stark

3.93

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

It was an impossible crime: knock off a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores in on… read more

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27. Lucky at Cards (Hard Case Crime #28)

By: Lawrence Block , Sheldon Lord

3.37

Format: 204 pages,

AT CARDS AND WITH WOMEN, BILL MAYNARD KNEW HOW TO CHEAT On the mend after getting run out of Chicag… read more

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28. Call Me a Cab

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.00

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

In 1977, one of the world’s finest crime novelists turned his pen to suspense of a very different s… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Call Me a Cab book and Gil Brewer's The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30)

  • pulp
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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29. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"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

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30. Grave Descend

By: John Lange

3.76

Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition

An Edgar Award finalist from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Jurassic Park: A diver ent… read more

Similar categories in John Lange's Grave Descend book and Gil Brewer's The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30)

  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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31. Zero Cool

By: John Lange

3.62

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

“The pacing and plot twists are first-rate” in this international thriller from the Jurassic Park a… read more

Similar categories in John Lange's Zero Cool book and Gil Brewer's The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30)

  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"don’t be stubborn, mister. we haven't got all day." "you mean this is a part-time job?"

-John Lange, Zero Cool

"then they had pollo con ajillo, chicken with garlic, and a bottle of portuguese red wine. "my god, we’re going to stink after this," angela said."

-John Lange, Zero Cool

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The Peddler

Richard S. Prather , None

3.64

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The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

Max Allan Collins

4.01

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Getting Off

Lawrence Block , Jill Emerson

3.35

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Deadly Beloved

Max Allan Collins

3.53

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Getting Off

Lawrence Block , Jill Emerson

3.35

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Killing Castro (Hard Case Crime #51)

Lawrence Block , Lee Duncan

4.14

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Eight Million Ways to Die (Matthew Scudder, #5)

Lawrence Block

4.36

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Family Honor (Sunny Randall, #1)

Robert B. Parker

3.45

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