Hardboiled

Hardboiled fiction is a literary style, most commonly associated with crime fiction (especially detective stories), and distinguished by the unsentimental portrayal of violence and sometimes sex.

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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Maltese Falcon
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
The Thin Man
Double Indemnity
The Glass Key
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye
Ed Lynskey
It’s so easy it’s scary. Anybody—even you—can veer into a wrong orbit. Mine? Death Row is at the Three Toes Correctional Center, Virginia. But I got a raw deal, and I’ll holler it until my last breath.
ed lynskey, Wrong Orbits

Christopher G. Moore
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.
Christopher G. Moore

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