12 Top noir books like The Jugger (Parker, #6) by Richard Stark

Cover of The Jugger (Parker, #6) by Richard Stark

The Jugger (Parker, #6)

By: Richard Stark

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Not many men knew what Parker did for a living, because what he did was steal. But Joe Sheer, a ret…

"Well, it just figures," Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"Well, it just figures," Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The technicians worked around him now as though they expected to launch him into space."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The technicians worked around him now as though they expected to launch him into space."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

If you liked the noir plot in The Jugger (Parker, #6) by Richard Stark , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark

1. Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter

By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.18

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

The groundbreaking Parker books are adapted for the first time as a series of graphic novels by leg… read more

Similar categories in Darwyn Cooke's Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of 361 by Donald E. Westlake

2. 361

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.56

Format: 207 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray Kelly woke up in the hospita… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's 361 book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13) by Donald E. Westlake

3. Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.03

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

- After a year on the lam, the return of bumbling thief Dortmunder is a cause celebre. The author's… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13) book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross Macdonald

4. The Far Side of the Dollar

By: Ross Macdonald

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealth… read more

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Far Side of the Dollar book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Hit List (Keller, #2) by Lawrence Block

5. Hit List (Keller, #2)

By: Lawrence Block

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Keller is a regular guy. He goes to the movies, works on his stamp collection. Call him for jury du… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's Hit List (Keller, #2) book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #4) by Lawrence Block

6. The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #4)

By: Lawrence Block

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

In this long out-of-print installment in Lawrence Block's bestselling Burglar series, Bernie Rhoden… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #4) book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

7. Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2)

By: Lawrence Block

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Small-time stoolie, Jake "The Spinner" Jablon, made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers, … read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2) book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Blackbird (Alan Grofield, #3) by Richard Stark

8. The Blackbird (Alan Grofield, #3)

By: Richard Stark

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark, offers the third Alan Grofield novel of suspense. Gro… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Blackbird (Alan Grofield, #3) book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53) by Donald E. Westlake

9. The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.26

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Originally published in 1960 as The Mercenaries. SOME PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY Mavis St. P… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53) book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Big Bounce (Jack Ryan, #1) by Elmore Leonard

10. The Big Bounce (Jack Ryan, #1)

By: Elmore Leonard

3.30

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Jack Ryan always wanted to play pro ball. But he couldn't hit a curveball, so he turned his attenti… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's The Big Bounce (Jack Ryan, #1) book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Good Behavior (Dortmunder, #6) by Donald E. Westlake

11. Good Behavior (Dortmunder, #6)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

(6th Title in the Dortmunder series) John Dortmunder's one of the slyest burglars going. But by God… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Good Behavior (Dortmunder, #6) book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5) by Donald E. Westlake

12. Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Byzantine Fire: 90 carats of flawless ruby with great national and religious significance. It's… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5) book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1) by Lawrence Block

13. The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich village apartment. Prime suspect, a m… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1) book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Wycherly Woman by Ross Macdonald

14. 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

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Wycherly Woman book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Mr Majestyk by Elmore Leonard

15. Mr Majestyk

By: Elmore Leonard

3.90

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Once, Vincent Majestyk crashed through a jungle with an M-15 and a sack of grenades. Now he works u… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Mr Majestyk book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime

16. Hit Man (Keller, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Keller is an assassin - he is paid by the job and works for a mysterious man who nominates hits and… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's Hit Man (Keller, #1) book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

17. A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee #5)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Travis McGee discovers a face from his past lying in a pool of blood on a cheap motel room flo… read more

Similar categories in John D. MacDonald's A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee #5) book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

Cover of The Jugger (Parker, #6) by Richard Stark

18. The Jugger (Parker, #6)

By: Richard Stark

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Not many men knew what Parker did for a living, because what he did was steal. But Joe Sheer, a ret… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6) book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Well, it just figures," Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The technicians worked around him now as though they expected to launch him into space."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The room was full of law. Apparently somebody on Younger’s force had invited the state police to attend after all; the pack of technical men, with their cameras and chalk, powders and notebooks and l…"

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

19. 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

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's New Hope for the Dead book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

Cover of Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2) by Donald E. Westlake

20. Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.03

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When John Dortmunder sets out to rob a bank, he really means it. He steals the whole thing. With th… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2) book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime

21. Nobody's Angel (Hard Case Crime, #65)

By: Jack Clark

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

While Chicago cabbie Eddie Miles drives the city streets at midnight, two killers--one targeting pr… read more

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22. The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convic… read more

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23. The Busy Body

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Previously published in paperback by Ballantine. read more

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24. Somebody Owes Me Money (Hard Case Crime #44)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.86

Format: 144 pages,

read more

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25. City Primeval

By: Elmore Leonard

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Clement Mansell, knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The crazed killer is back on the Det… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's City Primeval book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

26. 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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27. Quarry (Quarry, #1)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Broker deals in murder on the open market with the assistance of a highly paid precise killer named… read more

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28. Jimmy The Kid (Dortmunder, #3)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here's the five-member Dortmunder Gang trying to achieve the perfect crime by following a paperback… read more

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29. Killshot

By: Elmore Leonard

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

"[Leonard has] written so many first-rate crime stories that it would be fatuous to say Killshotis … read more

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30. Where the Body Was

By: Ed Brubaker

4.14

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Bru… read more

Similar categories in Ed Brubaker's Where the Body Was book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Lowdown Road by Scott Von Doviak

31. Lowdown Road

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more

Similar categories in Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road book and Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook

19 Best fiction books like The Jugger (Parker, #6) by Richard Stark

Transform Your Habits

Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter

Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.18

Transform Your Habits

361

Donald E. Westlake

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13)

Donald E. Westlake

4.03

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The Far Side of the Dollar

Ross Macdonald

4.57

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Transform Your Habits

Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23)

Richard Stark

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Flashfire (Parker, #19)

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

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Dirty Money (Parker, #24)

Richard Stark

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death (Mitch Tobin #1)

Donald E. Westlake , Tucker Coe

3.94

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