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…
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1. The Benson Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #1)
By: S.S. Van Dine
3.46
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
The Benson Murder Case is the first novel in the Philo Vance series of mystery novels by S. S. Van … read more
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- mystery thriller
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2. The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
By: Muriel Spark
3.65
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—i… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls."-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
"- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment …"-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
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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- mystery thriller
- classics
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
"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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- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
5. The Dutch Shoe Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective, #3)
By: Ellery Queen
4.48
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Das Geheimnis der weissen Schuhe Wenn das keine Tragik ist: Gerade als Abigail Doorn in den Operati… read more
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- mystery thriller
- classics
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6. Double Indemnity
By: James M. Cain
4.06
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, o… read more
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- mystery thriller
- classics
- noir
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"I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake"-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity
"I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman."-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity
"They've committed a *murder*! And it's not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They're stuck with each other and they got to ride all the way to the end of …"-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity
"There's a shark. Following the ship.' I tried not to look, but couldn't help it. I saw a flash of dirty white down in the green. We walked back to the deck chairs. Walter, we'll have to wait. Till th…"-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity
7. 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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- classics
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
8. 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
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- noir
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9. 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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- mystery thriller
- classics
- noir
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- mystery
- thriller
- crime
10. Miss Pinkerton
By: Mary Roberts Rinehart
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
When Herbert Wynne is found dead, with a bullet in the forehead, the obvious explanation is murder.… read more
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- classics
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11. The Talisman Ring
By: Georgette Heyer
3.37
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Neither Sir Tristram Shield nor Eustacie, his young French cousin, share the slightest inclination … read more
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12. 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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- classics
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"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)
13. 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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14. Manhattan Transfer
By: John Dos Passos
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transferis an "expressionistic … read more
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15. The Black Angel
By: Cornell Woolrich
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Woolrich devised and used instruments of psychological torture-his stories.-TIME Nothing beats a ta… read more
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16. 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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17. The Chinese Orange Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective, #8)
By: Ellery Queen
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
An unknown dead man is found in the office of a prosperous publisher. His clothes are on backward, … read more
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18. 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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19. The Unsuspected
By: Charlotte Armstrong
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE SUSPECT Luther Grandison was a name that meant many different things to many different people. … read more
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20. The Spanish Cape Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective, #9)
By: Ellery Queen
3.94
Format: 322 pages,
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21. Malice Aforethought
By: Francis Iles
3.93
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
On a balmy summer's day in 1930 the great and the good of the county are out in force for the annua… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
"The evidence knocked clean out of their hands. Nothing but suspicion left…and you can’t arrest a murderer on suspicion, oh dear no! Only felonious loiterer’s and housebreakers and low scum like that.…"-Francis Iles, Malice Aforethought
"Madeleine Cranmere met him in the hall and showed him over the ground floor herself. She appeared delighted to listen to his rapturous enthusiasm, and consulted him on a few points as if he were an e…"-Francis Iles, Malice Aforethought
22. The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.99
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin… read more
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24. 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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25. 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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26. The Big Money (U.S.A., #3)
By: E.L. Doctorow , John Dos Passos
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
THE BIG MONEY completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success an… read more
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27. Smallbone Deceased
By: Michael Gilbert
4.05
Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderHorniman, Birley and Craine is a highly re… read more
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"It’s quite a good idea. Only for heaven’s sake don’t be like that mug in the detective story who confides all his best ideas to a friendly sort of character who turns out to be the murderer in Chapte…"-Michael Gilbert, Smallbone Deceased
28. Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles
By: Martin Edwards
3.91
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
‘If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a… read more
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29. Evergreen (Japantown Mystery #2)
By: Naomi Hirahara
3.75
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A Japanese American nurse's aide navigates the dangers of post-WWII and post-Manzanar life as she a… read more
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30. The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel
By: Denise Mina
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Philip Marlowe is on the hunt for a missing heiress in L.A. —and up against a rival PI—in this smar… read more
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31. Golden Age Detective Stories (An American Mystery Classic)
By: Otto Penzler
3.97
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The greatest detectives of the Golden Age investigate the most puzzling crimes of the era Sometimes… read more
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