Mildred Pierce
By: James M. Cain
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and deter…
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1. Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.10
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at… read more
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- classics
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"She was a cute as a washtub."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"It was a nice walk, if you liked grunting."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
2. The Black Ice Score (Parker, #11)
By: Richard Stark
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them t… read more
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- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- novels
- crime
3. The Getaway
By: Jim Thompson
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Doc McCoy is the most skilled criminal alive. But when for the first time in Doc's long criminal ca… read more
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- noir
- fiction
- mystery
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- crime
4. Stella Dallas
By: Olive Higgins Prouty
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
She's ambitious, she's relentless, she's unstoppable - but she can't hide the stain of her working-… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. In caso di disgrazia
By: Georges Simenon , Laura Colombo
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
La sera in cui Lucien Gobillot - uno dei piu celebri avvocati di Parigi, la cui brillante carriera … read more
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- mystery
- noir
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6. The Soul of Kindness
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
' "Here I am!" Flora called to Richard as she went downstairs. For a second, Meg felt disloyalty. I… read more
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- novels
- classics
- fiction
7. The Green Eagle Score (Parker, #10)
By: Richard Stark
4.31
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Here's Parker--planning to steal the entire payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York, with … read more
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- mystery
- crime
- noir
- fiction
8. Mildred Pierce
By: James M. Cain
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and deter… read more
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- noir
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- novels
- crime
9. Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
As Chandler's last novel opens, Philip Marlowe meets a well-endowed redhead as she disembarks from … read more
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- classics
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
10. The So Blue Marble
By: Dorothy B. Hughes
3.83
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The so blue marble. It promised treasure, but now it's missing. The result is murder. The dashing t… read more
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- classics
- noir
- fiction
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11. The Goodbye Look
By: Ross Macdonald
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
In The Goodbye Look, Lew Archer is hired to investigate a burglary at the mission-style mansion of … read more
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12. Trouble Is My Business
By: Raymond Chandler
4.26
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold… read more
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13. Now, Voyager
By: Olive Higgins Prouty
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Don't let's ask for the moon! We have the stars!" The film that concludes with Bette Davis's famou… read more
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14. All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
By: Larry McMurtry , None
4.30
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
Ranging from Texas to California on a young writer's journey in a car he calls El Chevy, All My Fri… read more
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15. Rear Window - Story Collection
By: Cornell Woolrich
4.12
Format: 652 pages, Paperback
The story that inspired the Alfred Hitchcock film masterpiece! Cornell Woolrich. His name represent… read more
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16. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
By: Henry Farrell
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
Book jacket: Baby Jane, a child star of early vaudeville, resented having to grow up in the shadow … read more
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17. Those Who Walk Away
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
The honeymoon is over, as they say, the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husba… read more
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18. Ride the Pink Horse
By: Dorothy B. Hughes
4.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sailor, a hood from Chicago, steps off a bus in a small, desert town. He is looking for someone, hi… 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 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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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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