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Hardboiled Books
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 169,273 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 116,032 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,083 ratings — published 1940
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 39 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 47,005 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 38 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,892 ratings — published 1929
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 31 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,289 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 31 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,576 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 28 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,974 ratings — published 1949
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 38,470 ratings — published 1934
Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by (shelved 20 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,609 ratings — published 1936
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,720 ratings — published 1931
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,148 ratings — published 1949
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,745 ratings — published 1962
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,228 ratings — published 1951
Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 69,269 ratings — published 1991
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,528 ratings — published 1929
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 49,002 ratings — published 1934
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 11,146 ratings — published 1958
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,355 ratings — published 1976
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,102 ratings — published 1950
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.78 — 97,177 ratings — published 1987
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 27,094 ratings — published 1952
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 115,514 ratings — published 2002
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,623 ratings — published 1930
A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,679 ratings — published 1957
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,588 ratings — published 1950
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,352 ratings — published 1990
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,793 ratings — published 1947
Shoot the Piano Player (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,715 ratings — published 1956
The Outfit (Parker, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,677 ratings — published 1963
The Man with the Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,593 ratings — published 1963
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,516 ratings — published 1964
The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,647 ratings — published 1958
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,297 ratings — published 1963
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.18 — 38,218 ratings — published 1990
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,670 ratings — published 1988
The Chill (Lew Archer, #11)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,842 ratings — published 1964
The Ivory Grin (Lew Archer, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,790 ratings — published 1952
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,131 ratings — published 1947
The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,315 ratings — published 1927
Black Money (Lew Archer, #13)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,493 ratings — published 1966
The Gutter and the Grave (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,737 ratings — published 1958
Sin City, Vol. 4: That Yellow Bastard (Sin City, #4)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.24 — 26,533 ratings — published 1996
Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For (Sin City, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.18 — 29,026 ratings — published 1993
The Barbarous Coast (Lew Archer, #6)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,773 ratings — published 1956
The Galton Case (Lew Archer, #8)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,280 ratings — published 1959
The Getaway (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,870 ratings — published 1958
Pick-Up (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,265 ratings — published 1955
The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.91 — 20,304 ratings — published 1964
The Simple Art of Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,292 ratings — published 1944
“CHAPTER 1:
My old car battery, dead as a turd, rode in the trunk of Dreema’s sedan. She’d told me to take it. I felt embarrassed to drive it, but I had no other way to pick up a new car battery.”
― Traffic
My old car battery, dead as a turd, rode in the trunk of Dreema’s sedan. She’d told me to take it. I felt embarrassed to drive it, but I had no other way to pick up a new car battery.”
― Traffic
“I’ve heard that you’re in the pain business. I don’t like doing work for that kind of man,” said Vincent Calvino. Casey rolled his neck and a small cracking noise echoed from the bones inside. “If you worked only for people you liked, you wouldn’t cover your rent.”
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