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…
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1. Cat Chaser
By: Elmore Leonard
3.74
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
A gripping, lightning-paced tale of an ex-soldier-turned Florida motel owner whose dangerous affair… read more
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"all over the world...the past was being wiped out by condominiums."-Elmore Leonard, Cat Chaser
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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- pulp
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
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- crime
3. Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
By: Elmore Leonard
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Ordell Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie… read more
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- noir
- fiction
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- novels
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"He sat in the living room in the dark, an expert at waiting, a nineteen-year veteran of it, waiting for people who failed to appear, missed court dates because they forgot or didn't care, and took of…"-Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
4. Swag
By: Elmore Leonard
3.90
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This "brilliant caper" (New York Times) from bestselling author Elmore Leonard is a rollicking tale… read more
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- noir
- fiction
- mystery
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- crime
5. 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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- pulp
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- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- novels
- crime
6. The Maltese Falcon
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a l… read more
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- mystery
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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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- noir
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8. The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
By: Chester Himes
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
When Harlemites set about each other with knives, it's an everyday kind of happening. But when a wh… read more
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- mystery
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10. 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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- noir
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11. Wild at Heart
By: Barry Gifford
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
The heroes of Barry Gifford's world are Sailor and Lula, unconditional lovers whose dreams and adve… read more
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12. 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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- pulp
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- fiction
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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
13. 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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14. New Hope for the Dead
By: James Lee Burke , Charles Willeford
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley is called to a posh Miami neighborhood to investigate a letha… read more
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15. The Man With The Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
By: Richard Stark
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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16. Black Wings Has My Angel
By: Elliott Chaze
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Chaze's long-lost noir classic, a legend among noir buffs, is back in print for the first time in n… read more
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17. The Switch
By: Elmore Leonard
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
"My favorite Leonard book....He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today, if they shar… read more
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18. 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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19. The Friends of Eddie Coyle
By: George V. Higgins
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop n… read more
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20. 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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21. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
