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…
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1. 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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2. Killing Castro (Hard Case Crime #51)
By: Lawrence Block , Lee Duncan
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Five Americansa bounty hunter, a murderer on the run, a vengeful college kid, a professional thug, … read more
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3. Eight Million Ways to Die (Matthew Scudder, #5)
By: Lawrence Block
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prost… read more
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4. Family Honor (Sunny Randall, #1)
By: Robert B. Parker
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A blazingly original novel from the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, featuring a sharp, t… read more
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5. Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2)
By: Lawrence Block
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Small-time stoolie, Jake "The Spinner" Jablon, made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers, … read more
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6. The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30)
By: Gil Brewer
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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7. 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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8. The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
By: Lawrence Block
3.92
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich village apartment. Prime suspect, a m… read more
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9. Riding the Rap
By: Elmore Leonard
3.44
Format: 347 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Wicked and irresistible....Elmore Leonard is a literary genius." --New York Times Book Review Befo… read more
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10. 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
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11. 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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12. A Stab in the Dark (Matthew Scudder, #4)
By: Lawrence Block
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended Icepick Prowler, freely admits to having slain seven young w… read more
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13. The Guns of Heaven (Hard Case Crime #24)
By: Pete Hamill
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
The Barnes & Noble Review Nostradamus he isn't; but award-winning journalist Pete Hamill's 1983 pul… read more
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14. 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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16. Lobster
By: Polly McLean , None
3.84
Format: 467 pages, Paperback
Aboard the Titanic, Lobster watches Angelina devour his father, before being plucked out of the aqu… read more
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17. 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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18. The Gutter and the Grave (Hard Case Crime #15)
By: Ed McBain
2.18
Format: 166 pages,
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19. A Walk Among the Tombstones (Matthew Scudder, #10)
By: Lawrence Block
4.33
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Big-time dope dealer Kenan Khoury is a wealthy man, and it comes as no surprise when his wife Franc… read more
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20. 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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21. Dead Street (Hard Case Crime #37)
By: Max Allan Collins , Mickey Spillane
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
For 20 years, former NYPD cop Jack Stang has lived with the memory of his girlfriend's death in an … read more
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22. Confess, Fletch (Fletch, #2)
By: Gregory McDonald
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Confess, Fletch The flight from Rome had been pleasant enough, even if the business he was on wasn'… read more
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23. 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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24. Dead Low Tide
By: John D. MacDonald , Dean Koontz
3.78
Format: None pages,
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25. You Like It Darker
By: Stephen King
4.32
Format: 502 pages, Hardcover
From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more
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26. In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)
By: Lawrence Block
3.79
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bad cop Jerry Broadfield didn't make any friends on the force when he volunteered to squeal to an a… read more
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"Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts."-Lawrence Block, In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)
27. Lowdown Road
By: Scott Von Doviak
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more
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28. 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
29. The Donut Legion
By: Joe R. Lansdale
3.64
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
In this standalone, Edgar-award winning author, Joe R. Lansdale, whom "few can match" ( Booklist ) … read more
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30. Killer, Come Back To Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury
By: Ray Bradbury
3.95
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centenary, this collection commemorates his finest crime stories – tales… read more
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31. Tsalmoth (Vlad Taltos, #16)
By: Steven Brust
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
First comes love. Then comes marriage… Vlad Taltos is in love. With a former assassin who may ju… read more
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"Too much weird at once and you just gotta take what piece of it you can and deal with that, worry about the rest later."-Steven Brust, Tsalmoth (Vlad Taltos, #16)
