Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction
Dive into the gritty world of hard-boiled detective fiction with our curated list of the best noir novels. Explore tough detectives, dark alleys, and thrilling mysteries in classic and modern pulp crime books.
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Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe
by Raymond Chandler
Authorized by the estate of the late Raymond Chandler, this volume reveals the missing life history and detective adventures of Philip Marlowe, one of the …
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Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe
by Byron Preiss
This book is a homage to the greatest detective story writer of the 20th century, an Anglo-American who took Los Angeles, his adopted home, off …
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Cracking the Hard-Boiled Detective
by Lewis D. Moore
The hard-boiled private detective is among the most recognizable characters in popular fiction since the 1920s--a tough product of a violent world, in which police …
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The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
Farewell, My Lovely: Philip Marlowe navigates the underworld of the Los Angeles gambling circuit while investigating the disappearance of a beautiful nightclub girl.
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Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings (LOA #80)
by Raymond Chandler
The lady in the lade - The little sister - The long goodbye - Playback - Double indemnity - Selected essays and letters.
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Hardboiled Mystery Writers
by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli
An illustrated guide to the mystery genre's hardest hitting writers focuses on the three men who created a uniquely American brand of detective fiction--Raymond Chandler, …
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The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
Sam Spade's partner is murdered while working on a case, and it is Spade's responsibility to find the killer. In his search, Spade runs mortal …
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Crime Novels
by Robert Polito
This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream …
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The Columbia History of the American Novel
by Emory Elliott
Designed as a companion to The Columbia Literary History of the United States, this compilation of 31 major essays covers the American novel from the …
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Five Complete Travis McGee Novels
by John D. MacDonald
Contains novels : A tan and sandy silence, The dreadful lemon sky. The empty copper sea, The green ripper, free fall in crimson.
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Meditations on America
by Lewis D. Moore
The remaining chapters analyze various themes that figure prominently in the series.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories
by James M. Cain
These three classics from the master of the noir novel, along with five otherwise unavailable short stories, are electric with the taut narrative voice, the …
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Double Indemnity
by James M. Cain
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • James M. Cain, virtuoso of the roman noir, gives us a …
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James M. Cain and the American Authors' Authority
by Richard Fine
The 1940s offered ever-increasing outlets for writers in book publishing, magazines, radio, film, and the nascent television industry, but the standard rights arrangements often prevented …
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City Primeval
by Elmore Leonard
Clement Mansell knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The seriously crazed killer is already back on the Detroit streets -- thanks …
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The Big Nowhere
by James Ellroy
Los Angeles, 1950 Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a …
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Crime Wave
by James Ellroy
Los Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field …
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L.A. Noir
by James Ellroy
A hardcover compendium of three detective novels by the author of L.A. Confidential, the basis of the motion picture, includes Blood on the Moon, Because …
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L.A. Confidential
by James Ellroy
Three troubled cops-- Ed Exley, desperately seeking glory; vengeful Bud White, a witness to his mother's murder by his father; and Jack Vincennes, a shakedown …
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My Dark Places
by James Ellroy
The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about …