18 must-read noir books like Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2) by Donald E. Westlake

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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…

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1. Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23)

By: Richard Stark

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes mystery master Donald E. Westlake is the author of uproarious crime capers. Sometimes he … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Flashfire (Parker, #19) by Richard Stark, Richard Stark (pseud. Donald E Westlake)

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

-Richard Stark, Flashfire (Parker, #19)

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3. Dirty Money (Parker, #24)

By: Richard Stark

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Book by read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning." Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said."

-Richard Stark, Dirty Money (Parker, #24)

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

By: Donald E. Westlake , Tucker Coe

3.94

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

Mitch Tobin is a hard-nosed, disgraced ex-cop who spends his days building a wall around his back y… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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5. The Black Ice Score (Parker, #11)

By: Richard Stark

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them t… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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6. Burglars Can't Be Choosers (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profes… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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7. Backflash (Parker, #18)

By: Richard Stark

4.10

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Following on the heels of Comeback, a New York Times Notable Book, a new Parker adventure finds the… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The shirtsleeved bald bartender was tall and fat, looking like a retired cop who'd gone to seed the day his papers had come through. At the bar, muttering together about sports and politics—other peo…"

-Richard Stark, Backflash (Parker, #18)

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8. The Seventh (Parker, #7)

By: Richard Stark

4.08

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Why not? Just because no one had ever tried it before? What better place for a heist, if it was … read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"They had this block to themselves. The windows of all the tenements on both sides were marked with the white X of urban renewal; they stood nearly empty, waiting for the wreckers. Within them the coc…"

-Richard Stark, The Seventh (Parker, #7)

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9. The Green Eagle Score (Parker, #10)

By: Richard Stark

4.31

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here's Parker--planning to steal the entire payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York, with … read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #7)

By: Lawrence Block

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr's in love--with an exotic Eastern European beauty who shares his obses… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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11. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16) by Richard Stark

12. Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

By: Richard Stark

4.41

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher’s Moon is more than twice as long most of the master heister’s … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"He's a man who didn't hear the twig snap."

-Richard Stark, Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

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13. The Moving Target

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshi… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Comeback (Parker, #17) by Richard Stark

14. Comeback (Parker, #17)

By: Richard Stark

4.09

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A robbery of a Christian Crusade executed in the heat of the night comes off without a hitch, but i… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"A TV preacher, you know those guys? Evangelists." "I thought they were all in jail," Parker said."

-Richard Stark, Comeback (Parker, #17)

"She was naked, and remained the only woman in Archibald's experience to overflow her birthday suit."

-Richard Stark, Comeback (Parker, #17)

15. 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

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16. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"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)

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17. The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

By: Richard Stark

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When it comes to heists, Parker believes in some cardinal rules. On this job, he breaks two of them… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"Parker spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle."

-Richard Stark, The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

18. 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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19. Firebreak (Parker, #20)

By: Richard Stark

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Parker put down the body and answered the phone. And from that moment on he had two jobs to do. One… read more

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

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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21. The Sour Lemon Score (Parker, #12)

By: Donald E. Westlake , Richard Stark

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name’s Parker, you expect nothing less. Un… read more

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

22. The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #3)

By: Lawrence Block

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Bernie Rhodenbarr has gone legit - almost - as the new owner of a used bookstore in New York's Gree… read more

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23. 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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24. The Mourner (Parker, #4)

By: Richard Stark

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The statue wore white and grieved. Parker wasn’t interested in its sentimental value. The thief car… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away."

-Richard Stark, The Mourner (Parker, #4)

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

25. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • humor
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • comedy
Cover of Plunder Squad (Parker, #15) by Richard Stark

26. Plunder Squad (Parker, #15)

By: Richard Stark

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Hearing the click behind him, Parker threw his glass straight back over his right shoulder and dove… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of The Handle (Parker, #8) by Richard Stark

27. The Handle (Parker, #8)

By: Richard Stark

3.96

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Baron ran a gambling island off the Texas coast in the Gulf’s blue waters. To Parker, it was ju… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"Parker simply went where money was and took it away."

-Richard Stark, The Handle (Parker, #8)

28. Breakout (Parker, #21)

By: Richard Stark

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

Parker's back in jail, but not just any old jail; it's the correctional center, where people withou… read more

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29. The Score (Parker, #5)

By: Richard Stark

3.93

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

It was an impossible crime: knock off a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores in on… read more

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30. Nobody Runs Forever (Parker, #22)

By: Richard Stark

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

Master criminal Parker is back and in deeper, darker trouble than ever before. The classic anti-her… read more

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31. 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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21 must-read fiction books like Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2) by Donald E. Westlake

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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

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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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Homicide Trinity (Nero Wolfe, #36)

Rex Stout , Stephen Greenleaf

4.23

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Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

Raymond Chandler

4.10

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The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

Raymond Chandler

4.19

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Donald E. Westlake

3.56

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