More noir/hardboiled faves
Discover more noir and hardboiled favorites, from Patricia Highsmith’s *The Talented Mr. Ripley* to George V. Higgins’ *The Friends of Eddie Coyle*. Explore gritty pulp fiction, classic crime tales, and must-read authors in this curated book list.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
A young man sent to Europe on a job slowly assumes the life of the man he is sent to help.
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
by George V. Higgins
As members of a syndicate strive for recognition in the underworld, they learn to distrust their closest associates.
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The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction
by Maxim Jakubowski
Offers a collection of detective stories by Dashiell Hammett, Donald E. Westlake, Ross Macdonald, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, and other writers
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Hard-boiled
by Bill Pronzini
This anthology collects together short stories from the crime and detective genres.
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Pure Pulp
by Edward Gorman
Celebrates American pulp fiction in this volume which anthologizes 1920s and 1930s innovators such as John Jakes and Robert Bloch alongside later masters of the form, including Mickey Spillane, Ed McBain, and Donald Westlake
