6 Best hard boiled books like The Wycherly Woman by Ross Macdonald

Cover of The Wycherly Woman by Ross Macdonald

The Wycherly Woman

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was…

If you liked the hard boiled plot in The Wycherly Woman by Ross Macdonald , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Death of a Dude (Nero Wolfe, #44) by Rex Stout, Don Coldsmith

1. Death of a Dude (Nero Wolfe, #44)

By: Rex Stout , Don Coldsmith

3.95

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Sedentary sleuth Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, leave West Thirty-fifth Street for a … read more

Similar categories in Rex Stout's Death of a Dude (Nero Wolfe, #44) book and Ross Macdonald's The Wycherly Woman

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of A Bullet for Cinderella by John D. MacDonald

2. A Bullet for Cinderella

By: John D. MacDonald

4.02

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Her veneer was big city … but one look and you knew that Toni Rassell’s instincts were straight out… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Seventh (Parker, #7) by Richard Stark

3. The Seventh (Parker, #7)

By: Richard Stark

4.08

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Why not? Just because no one had ever tried it before? What better place for a heist, if it was … read more

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  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"They had this block to themselves. The windows of all the tenements on both sides were marked with the white X of urban renewal; they stood nearly empty, waiting for the wreckers. Within them the coc…"

-Richard Stark, The Seventh (Parker, #7)

Cover of Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7) by Raymond Chandler

4. 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

Similar categories in Raymond Chandler's Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7) book and Ross Macdonald's The Wycherly Woman

  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Wycherly Woman by Ross Macdonald

5. The Wycherly Woman

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was… read more

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Wycherly Woman book and Ross Macdonald's The Wycherly Woman

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

6. A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee #5)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Travis McGee discovers a face from his past lying in a pool of blood on a cheap motel room flo… read more

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Cover of The Jugger (Parker, #6) by Richard Stark

7. The Jugger (Parker, #6)

By: Richard Stark

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Not many men knew what Parker did for a living, because what he did was steal. But Joe Sheer, a ret… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6) book and Ross Macdonald's The Wycherly Woman

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"Well, it just figures," Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The technicians worked around him now as though they expected to launch him into space."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The room was full of law. Apparently somebody on Younger’s force had invited the state police to attend after all; the pack of technical men, with their cameras and chalk, powders and notebooks and l…"

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

8. 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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9. The Outfit (Parker, #3)

By: Richard Stark

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the Outfit tries to kill him, Parker declares war. Ripping off the syndicate is easy, but goin… read more

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10. The Man With The Getaway Face (Parker, #2)

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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11. 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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12. The Dain Curse

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages, Paperback

Everything about the Leggett diamond heist indicated to the Continental Op that it was an inside jo… read more

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13. Gambit (Nero Wolfe, #37)

By: Rex Stout , Michael Prichard

3.48

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Miss Sarah Blount, better known as Sally, has come to Wolfe to plead for his help with her father's… read more

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14. The Hunter (Parker, #1)

By: Richard Stark

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Double-crossed, shot, and left for dead -- by his wife. The thriller that introduces Parker. "A bri… read more

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15. The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

A couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--become the objects of Marlowe's i… read more

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Cover of The Mourner (Parker, #4) by Richard Stark

16. The Mourner (Parker, #4)

By: Richard Stark

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The statue wore white and grieved. Parker wasn’t interested in its sentimental value. The thief car… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Mourner (Parker, #4) book and Ross Macdonald's The Wycherly Woman

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away."

-Richard Stark, The Mourner (Parker, #4)

17. The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convic… read more

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Cover of The Handle (Parker, #8) by Richard Stark

18. The Handle (Parker, #8)

By: Richard Stark

3.96

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Baron ran a gambling island off the Texas coast in the Gulf’s blue waters. To Parker, it was ju… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8) book and Ross Macdonald's The Wycherly Woman

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"Parker simply went where money was and took it away."

-Richard Stark, The Handle (Parker, #8)

19. 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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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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Cover of Deadly Edge (Parker, #13) by Richard Stark

21. Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

By: Richard Stark

4.10

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Deadly Edge bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes sout… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Deadly Edge (Parker, #13) book and Ross Macdonald's The Wycherly Woman

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

9 Top fiction books like The Wycherly Woman by Ross Macdonald

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Death of a Dude (Nero Wolfe, #44)

Rex Stout , Don Coldsmith

3.95

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A Bullet for Cinderella

John D. MacDonald

4.02

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The Seventh (Parker, #7)

Richard Stark

4.08

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Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)

Raymond Chandler

4.11

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19 Best fiction books like The Jugger (Parker, #6) by Richard Stark

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Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter

Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.18

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Donald E. Westlake

3.56

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Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13)

Donald E. Westlake

4.03

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The Far Side of the Dollar

Ross Macdonald

4.57

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