All Shot Up (Harlem Cycle, #5)
By: Chester Himes
4.21
Format: 96 pages,
The shocking and explosive hardboiled classic. From murderers to prostitutes, corrupt politicians a…
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1. The Wicked Pavilion
By: Dawn Powell
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The “Wicked Pavilion” of the title is the Café Julien, where everybody who is anybody goes to recov… read more
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"Once you have made up your mind to drop a person it is most inconsiderate of them not to come within dropping distance."-Dawn Powell, The Wicked Pavilion
"Many men have triumphantly exploited a minuscule talent through life only to ruin themselves by muffing their deaths. Missing their proper exit cues they have hung around like dreary guests at a part…"-Dawn Powell, The Wicked Pavilion
2. You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)
By: Ian Fleming
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Ian Fleming’s twelfth James Bond novel. The tragic end to James Bond’s last mission – courtesy o… read more
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"You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face"-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)
"I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite…"-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)
"007: Be an angle, Penny, and ring down to Mary and tell her she's got to get out of whatever she's doing tonight. I'm taking her out to dinner. Scotts. Tell her we'll have our first roast grouse of t…"-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)
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3. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
By: Alexandra Fuller
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
In Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor… read more
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4. The Drowning Pool
By: Ross Macdonald
3.58
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are… read more
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5. Riddley Walker
By: Russell Hoban
4.17
Format: None pages,
In the far distant future, the country laid waste by nuclear holocaust, twelve-year-old Riddley Wal… read more
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8. All Shot Up (Harlem Cycle, #5)
By: Chester Himes
4.21
Format: 96 pages,
The shocking and explosive hardboiled classic. From murderers to prostitutes, corrupt politicians a… read more
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9. Libra
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more
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10. The Expendable Man
By: Dorothy B. Hughes
4.00
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
The critic HRF Keating chose The Expendable Manas one of his Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books. '… read more
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11. Ride the Pink Horse
By: Dorothy B. Hughes
4.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sailor, a hood from Chicago, steps off a bus in a small, desert town. He is looking for someone, hi… read more
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12. 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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13. The Ivory Grin
By: Ross Macdonald
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track d… read more
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14. Nobody's Perfect (Dortmunder, #4)
By: Donald E. Westlake
4.10
Format: None pages,
The priceless painting is titled "Folly Leads to Man's Ruin," and its owner, the rich and careless … read more
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15. Wolves Eat Dogs (Arkady Renko, #5)
By: Martin Cruz Smith
4.50
Format: None pages,
In Wolves Eat Dogs,Renko returns for his most enigmatic and baffling case: the death of one of Russ… read more
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16. 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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17. Pronto
By: Elmore Leonard
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
"Speedy, exhilarating, and smooth. Nobody does it better." --Washington Post "The man knows how to … read more
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18. Every Man a King (King Oliver, #2)
By: Walter Mosley
3.87
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
In this highly anticipated sequel from Edgar Award-winning "master of craft and narrative," Walter … read more
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19. Witness: Stories
By: Jamel Brinkley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an… read more
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"According to the terms of her personal lexicon, a woman was a lady only if she was fascinating and ungovernable, and my mother considered herself nothing if not a lady."-Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories
20. The Night Always Comes
By: Willy Vlautin
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of trickle-down greed and opportunism of gen… read more
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21. A Late Phoenix (Inspector Sloan, #4)
By: Catherine Aird
3.73
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan is called on to solve the coldest of cases in this thriller from CW… read more
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