Savage Night
By: Jim Thompson
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Jake Winroy had no looks, no education, and little else before he'd worked his way to the top of a …
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1. Fat City
By: Leonard Gardner
4.02
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human con… read more
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"Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not des…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"Out in the fog, weary, yet buoyant from the drinks, his mind dulled along with his aches and his energy returning, Tully was free of the sense of impending ordeal that had been with him for weeks. He…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
2. Cockfighter
By: Charles Willeford
4.13
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The sport is cockfighting and Frank Mansfield is the cockfighter - a silent and fiercely contrary m… read more
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- hard boiled
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- novels
- crime
3. Savage Night
By: Jim Thompson
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Jake Winroy had no looks, no education, and little else before he'd worked his way to the top of a … read more
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- hard boiled
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
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- crime
4. The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
By: James Crumley
3.74
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
An unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by wo… read more
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- noir
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5. 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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6. I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories
By: William Gay
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
William Gay established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern L… read more
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- fiction
7. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
By: Horace McCoy
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The marathon dance craze flourished during the 1930s, but the underside was a competition and viole… read more
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- noir
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8. 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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- hard boiled
- noir
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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
9. Sideswipe: A Hoke Moseley Novel
By: Lawrence Block , Charles Willeford
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Hoke Moseley has had enough. Tired of struggling against alimony payments, two teenage daughters, a… read more
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10. 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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11. 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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12. A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
By: Harry Crews , Michael McCurdy
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Hardcover
A Childhoodis the unforgettable memoir of Harry Crews' earliest years, a sharply remembered portrai… read more
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13. 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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14. Shoot the Piano Player
By: David Goodis
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs ou… read more
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15. 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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16. Road Dogs
By: Elmore Leonard
3.89
Format: 32 pages,
Legendary New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard returns with three of his favorite chara… read more
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17. He Died With His Eyes Open
By: James Sallis , Derek Raymond
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
When a middle-aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on a roadside in West London, the … read more
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18. White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
By: James Ellroy
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant D… 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. L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
By: James Ellroy
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoner… read more
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21. In a Lonely Place
By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more
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