Ed Lynskeys Favorite Hardboiled Crime Fiction Novels
Discover Ed Lynskey's top picks for hardboiled crime fiction novels. Explore a curated list of gritty, suspenseful reads that define the genre's best.
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Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels (LOA #110)
by Dashiell Hammett
Presents five novels by Dashiell Hamilton, all published between 1929 and 1934.
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The Lady in the Lake
by Raymond Chandler
Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's fourth novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times). In The Lady in the Lake, hardboiled …
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Deadly Beloved
by Max Allan Collins
Female private eye Ms. Michael Tree takes on a case that looks open and shut, but may have ties to the murder of her husband. …
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Queenpin
by Megan Abbott
By the author of Dare Me and The End of Everything A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken …
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The Wake-Up
by Robert Ferrigno
When Frank Thorpe, a deeply moral former undercover operative, sees a hard-charging art dealer knock down a Latino child in LAX airport, he decides to …
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The First Wave
by James R. Benn
The second Billy Boyle investigation Billy Boyle is dispatched to help arrange the surrender of Vichy French forces in Algeria. But dissension among the regular …
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L.A. Outlaws
by T. Jefferson Parker
Investigating the latest crime scene of a celebrity thief who has been staging lucrative heists and donating the spoils to charity, rookie deputy Charlie Hood …
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First Blood
by David Morrell
A mentally unstable Vietnam vet has a one-man war with the police force of a small town after they abuse him. Includes a never-before-seen alternate …
