12 Best fiction books like The Screaming Mimi by Fredric Brown

Cover of The Screaming Mimi by Fredric Brown

The Screaming Mimi

By: Fredric Brown

4.48

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Bill Sweeney is a down-and-out lush. He is also a top-notch reporter. Aroused by the naked beauty o…

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Cover of Flashfire (Parker, #19) by Richard Stark, Richard Stark (pseud. Donald E Westlake)

1. Flashfire (Parker, #19)

By: Richard Stark , Richard Stark (pseud. Donald E Westlake)

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Melander likes to do things flashy. When Parker finds himself working with Melander on a bank heist… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"This is crazy," he said. "You don't just shoot people." "Yes I do," Parker said."

-Richard Stark, Flashfire (Parker, #19)

Cover of The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy

2. The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood

By: Jane Leavy

4.15

Format: None pages,

The acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax returns with the biography of on… read more

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3. All the Way

By: Charles Williams , Charles Williams

3.98

Format: 269 pages,

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Similar categories in Charles Williams's All the Way book and Fredric Brown's The Screaming Mimi

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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4. A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17)

By: Charles Williams

3.20

Format: 144 pages,

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Similar categories in Charles Williams's A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17) book and Fredric Brown's The Screaming Mimi

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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5. The Screaming Mimi

By: Fredric Brown

4.48

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Bill Sweeney is a down-and-out lush. He is also a top-notch reporter. Aroused by the naked beauty o… read more

Similar categories in Fredric Brown's The Screaming Mimi book and Fredric Brown's The Screaming Mimi

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • science fiction

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

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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8. Uneasy Street: A Max Thursday Mystery

By: Wade Miller

4.48

Format: None pages,

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9. Nothing In Her Way

By: Charles Williams

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Utterly beautiful, smart as a whip, and crooked down to her slightly round heels, here is the most … read more

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10. Dead Calm (John Ingram #2)

By: Charles Williams

2.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

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11. 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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12. 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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13. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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14. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Fredric Brown's The Screaming Mimi

  • mystery
  • fiction
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

Cover of The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7) by Adrian McKinty

15. The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.39

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the … read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7) book and Fredric Brown's The Screaming Mimi

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of To Track a Traitor (Lane Winslow #10) by Iona Whishaw

16. To Track a Traitor (Lane Winslow #10)

By: Iona Whishaw

4.27

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

With events spanning both world wars, the tenth installment in the Lane Winslow mystery series is a… read more

Similar categories in Iona Whishaw's To Track a Traitor (Lane Winslow #10) book and Fredric Brown's The Screaming Mimi

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker

17. O Caledonia

By: Elspeth Barker

3.98

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more

Similar categories in Elspeth Barker's O Caledonia book and Fredric Brown's The Screaming Mimi

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown (Bernie Rhodenbarr #12) by Lawrence Block

18. The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown (Bernie Rhodenbarr #12)

By: Lawrence Block

3.78

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Suppose you’re Bernie Rhodenbarr. You’ve got a dream job, running your own cozy secondhand books… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of Framed in Fire (Lane Winslow #9) by Iona Whishaw

19. Framed in Fire (Lane Winslow #9)

By: Iona Whishaw

4.28

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A shallow grave, a missing person, and near-fatal arson keep Lane, Darling, and the Nelson police o… read more

Similar categories in Iona Whishaw's Framed in Fire (Lane Winslow #9) book and Fredric Brown's The Screaming Mimi

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Case of the Lazy Lover  (The Perry Mason Mysteries Book 1) by Erle Stanley Gardner

20. The Case of the Lazy Lover (The Perry Mason Mysteries Book 1)

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.79

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

MURDER WITH COMPLICATIONSWhen Perry Mason receives two mysterious checks from Lola Allred, a woman … read more

Similar categories in Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Lazy Lover (The Perry Mason Mysteries Book 1) book and Fredric Brown's The Screaming Mimi

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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21. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Fredric Brown's The Screaming Mimi

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction

12 must-read mystery books like The Screaming Mimi by Fredric Brown

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Flashfire (Parker, #19)

Richard Stark , Richard Stark (pseud. Donald E Westlake)

4.05

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All the Way

Charles Williams , Charles Williams

3.98

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A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17)

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3.20

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Quartet in Autumn

Barbara Pym

3.90

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Poor Things

Alasdair Gray

3.94

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Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

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Anne Enright

3.55

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