12 must-read noir books like Deadly Edge (Parker, #13) by Richard Stark

Cover of Deadly Edge (Parker, #13) by Richard Stark

Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

By: Richard Stark

4.10

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Deadly Edge bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes sout…

If you liked the noir plot in Deadly Edge (Parker, #13) by Richard Stark , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.01

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

BIG MAN ON CAMPUS Crime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Alla… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's The First Quarry (Quarry #8) book and Richard Stark's Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime
"Hi my name's Quarry. I'm in town to blow your favorite professor's brains out. Can you tell me whether you're planning to stop by his place this afternoon, so I can pick a time when I wouldn't have t…"

-Max Allan Collins, The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

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2. Bad News (Dortmunder, #10)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Dortmunder doesn't like manual labor. So when he gets the offer of money to dig up a grave, he… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Bad News (Dortmunder, #10) book and Richard Stark's Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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3. 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

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Drowning Pool book and Richard Stark's Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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4. What's The Worst That Could Happen? (Dortmunder, #9)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.50

Format: 192 pages,

Dortmunder is in the midst of a routine burglary of a Long Island mansion when who shows up toting … read more

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  • hard boiled
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Eight Million Ways to Die (Matthew Scudder, #5) by Lawrence Block

5. Eight Million Ways to Die (Matthew Scudder, #5)

By: Lawrence Block

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prost… read more

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

6. 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 Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) by Elmore Leonard

7. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

By: Elmore Leonard

4.00

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) book and Richard Stark's Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"I want you to understand,"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

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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 Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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9. 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

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Miami Blues book and Richard Stark's Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

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

10. 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

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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11. 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

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

12. 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 Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald

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

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target book and Richard Stark's Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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14. Hombre

By: Elmore Leonard

3.62

Format: 120 pages,

John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Hombre book and Richard Stark's Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Drowned Hopes (Dortmunder, #7) by Donald E. Westlake

15. Drowned Hopes (Dortmunder, #7)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.14

Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bumbling comic criminal John Dortmunder is in hot water as he tries to keep a nasty old man from bl… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Drowned Hopes (Dortmunder, #7) book and Richard Stark's Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

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

16. Even the Wicked (Matthew Scudder #13)

By: Lawrence Block

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An anonymous letter writer, the self-styled 'Will of the People', targets prominent criminals and e… read more

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17. A Long Line of Dead Men (Matthew Scudder, #12)

By: Lawrence Block

4.21

Format: 256 pages,

In Manhattan thirty-one men have been meeting annually for years. Their private club meets only to … read more

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18. 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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19. Red Harvest

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages, ebook

The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also… read more

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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 Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

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

21. 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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22. The Road To Ruin (Dortmunder, #11)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.34

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Ever-lovable but hapless crook John Dortmunder and his merry band of misfits attempt to drive off w… read more

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

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.86

Format: 144 pages,

read more

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24. 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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25. Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

By: Richard Stark

4.10

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Deadly Edge bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes sout… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Deadly Edge (Parker, #13) book and Richard Stark's Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • hard boiled
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • novels
  • crime

26. 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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27. In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

By: Lawrence Block

3.79

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bad cop Jerry Broadfield didn't make any friends on the force when he volunteered to squeal to an a… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3) book and Richard Stark's Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts."

-Lawrence Block, In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

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28. Call Me a Cab

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.00

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

In 1977, one of the world’s finest crime novelists turned his pen to suspense of a very different s… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Call Me a Cab book and Richard Stark's Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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29. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic by Daniel de Visé

30. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

By: Daniel de Visé

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more

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31. Understudy for Death

By: Charles Willeford

3.20

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Charles Willeford's legendary lost novel, unavailable since its original publication in 1961.AN UNF… read more

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  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

21 must-read fiction books like Deadly Edge (Parker, #13) by Richard Stark

Transform Your Habits

The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

Max Allan Collins

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Bad News (Dortmunder, #10)

Donald E. Westlake

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Drowning Pool

Ross Macdonald

3.58

Transform Your Habits

What's The Worst That Could Happen? (Dortmunder, #9)

Donald E. Westlake

3.50

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16 Top fiction books like In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3) by Lawrence Block

Transform Your Habits

Quarry's Ex (Quarry #10)

Max Allan Collins

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)

Robert B. Parker

3.92

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Killing Castro (Hard Case Crime #51)

Lawrence Block , Lee Duncan

4.14

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The Drowning Pool

Ross Macdonald

3.58

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