If you liked the noir plot in The Barbarous Coast by Ross Macdonald , here is a list of 6 books like this:
1. 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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- mystery thriller
- detective
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
2. April Evil
By: John D. MacDonald
4.33
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
An odd assortment of criminals and the woman who loves one of them are setting up for a crime. read more
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- mystery thriller
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
3. Miami Blues
By: Elmore Leonard , Charles Willeford
4.15
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room… read more
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- detective
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
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
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- detective
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
5. 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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- mystery thriller
- hard boiled
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
"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
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- hard boiled
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- mystery
- crime
7. The Green Ripper (Travis McGee #18)
By: John D. MacDonald
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
"McGee has become part of our national fabric."SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER Beautiful girls always gr… read more
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8. The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen, #1)
By: Edmund Crispin
3.51
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
Theatre companies are notorious hotbeds of intrigue, and few are more intriguing than the company c… read more
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- mystery thriller
- detective
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
"la pobre virgencita rústica que espera que su caballero deje de hacer el tonto con la princesa malvada"-Edmund Crispin, The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen, #1)
"bruscas sacudidas del tren abofetean a los viajeros hasta dejarlos sumidos en un estado de abyecta sumisión"-Edmund Crispin, The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen, #1)
9. 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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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. 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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14. 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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15. Bright Orange for the Shroud (Travis McGee #6)
By: John D. MacDonald , Carl Hiaasen
4.32
Format: 224 pages,
Travis McGee is looking forward to a "slob summer," spending his days as far away from danger as po… read more
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16. White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
By: James Ellroy
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant D… read more
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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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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. Two-Way Murder
By: E.C.R. Lorac
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
'This is only a hill mist, not a real fog. You'll find it'll be perfectly clear when we run down in… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
