Thieves Like Us
By: Edward Anderson
3.82
Format: None pages,
"One of the great forgotten novels of the 30s." - Raymond Chandler Somewhere between the hardboiled…
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1. The Burglar
By: David Goodis
4.00
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
A dreamlike masterpiece of crime, honor, and perverse loyalty by the legendary author of Shoot the … read more
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- noir
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"At three in the morning it was dead around here and the windows of the mansion were black, the mansion dark purple and solemn against the moonlit velvet, green of gently sloping lawn."-David Goodis, The Burglar
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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- noir
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- crime
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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- classics
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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 Tremor of Forgery
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
Under the hot desert sun nothing is quite as it seems. Howard Ingham, an American writer, is sent t… read more
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- mystery
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5. The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Ripley, #4)
By: Patricia Highsmith
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
The Boy Who Followed Ripley, the fourth novel in the Ripley series, is one of Patricia Highsmith's … read more
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6. After Dark, My Sweet
By: Jim Thompson
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
William "Kid" Collins was once a respected boxer. Now he's a drifter, on the run after escaping fro… 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. 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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9. 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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10. Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s & 40s
By: William Lindsay Gresham , Cornell Woolrich , Robert Polito , James M. Cain , Horace McCoy , Kenneth Fearing , Edward Anderson
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
The first collection in a two-volume set celebrating American crime fiction contains classic novels… read more
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11. Pick-Up
By: Charles Willeford
4.01
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
He Holed Up With a Helpless Lush Prowling the grimy streets of San Francisco low-life, Helen is … read more
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"No whiskey, no religion, nothing."-Charles Willeford, Pick-Up
"There is something about a man with a beard I cannot stand. No particular reason for it. Prejudice, I suppose. I feel the same way about cats."-Charles Willeford, Pick-Up
12. The Postman Always Rings Twice
By: James M. Cain
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's Th… read more
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13. Thieves Like Us
By: Edward Anderson
3.82
Format: None pages,
"One of the great forgotten novels of the 30s." - Raymond Chandler Somewhere between the hardboiled… read more
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14. Red Harvest
By: Dashiell Hammett
4.12
Format: 652 pages, ebook
The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also… read more
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15. Shoot the Piano Player
By: David Goodis
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs ou… read more
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17. I Married a Dead Man
By: Cornell Woolrich
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pregnant, abandoned by her slimy husband and destitute, Helen Georgesson boards a train going west.… read more
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18. The Bride Wore Black
By: Cornell Woolrich , William Irish
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
AMERICA'S MASTER OF SUSPENSE...FIRST IN THE DEFINITIVE SERIES OF THIS AMERICAN GENIUS No one knew w… read more
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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. The Big Clock
By: Nicholas Christopher , Kenneth Fearing
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for a New York media co… 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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