The New Detectives
Explore the best detective books and gripping mystery fiction in The New Detectives collection. Featuring thrilling titles like Paranoia by Joseph Finder, Dennis Lehane's A Drink Before the War, and Raymond Chandler's classic The Lady in the Lake, this curated list is perfect for fans of crime novels, noir, and suspenseful page-turners.
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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 crime fiction master Raymond Chandler brings us the story of a couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poor man's—who have become the objects of Philip Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care.
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A Drink Before the War
by Dennis Lehane
A novel about the search for a missing woman who had stolen secret documents.
