Nightfall
By: Bill Pronzini , David Goodis
3.87
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
“An almost perfect book, spare, balanced, and inexplicably moving.”—Geoffrey O’Brien Jim Vanning…
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1. The Black Mass of Brother Springer
By: James Sallis , Charles Willeford
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford" Elmore Leonard THE BLACK MASS OF BROTHE… read more
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"Money is the root of all goodness. To talk disparagingly about money is the privilege of those who have money. There are also those people who state matter-of-factly that "money isn't everything". Th…"-James Sallis, The Black Mass of Brother Springer
2. Nightfall
By: Bill Pronzini , David Goodis
3.87
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
“An almost perfect book, spare, balanced, and inexplicably moving.”—Geoffrey O’Brien Jim Vanning… read more
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3. 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
4. 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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5. The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
By: James Crumley
3.74
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
An unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by wo… read more
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6. Jesus' Son
By: Denis Johnson
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more
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- literature
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7. 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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8. 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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9. The Burnt Orange Heresy
By: Charles Willeford
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A new paperback edition of the neo-noir novel book critics have called Willeford's best. Fast-talki… read more
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10. I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
By: Mickey Spillane
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Here's Mickey Spillane and Mike Hammer in their roughest and readiest--a double-strength shot of se… read more
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11. 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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12. The Cry of the Owl
By: Patricia Highsmith
3.04
Format: 40 pages,
Robert Forester didn't look like the kind of man to be a prowler. His ex-wife had told the police h… read more
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13. 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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14. Wild Town
By: Jim Thompson
3.00
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
In trouble more often than not, guilty of assault, manslaughter, and honorably discharged from the … read more
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15. The Hot Spot
By: Charles Williams
4.57
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
A dark, brooding masterpiece of guilt, greed, and lust in a town ripe for felony. Madox wasn't all … read more
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16. 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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17. 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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18. The Way Some People Die
By: Ross Macdonald
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Arch… read more
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19. Pop. 1280
By: Jim Thompson
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest cri… read more
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20. 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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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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