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 Elephant Tree
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
The Zombie Room
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 Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
The Glass Key
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
The Sage Stone Prophecy by N.S. WikarskiA Day Dead Old by Carmen MartucciHindi Dalit Literature in the United Provinces by Tapan BasuA Killing in the Keys by Sue AndrewsDeath of an Officer by Mark   Ellis
Detective Fiction: The Theory
74 books — 21 voters

The Neon Rain by James Lee BurkeThe Krewe by Seth PeveyLouisiana Hotshot by Julie SmithThe Ballad of Robert Charles by K. Stephen PrinceThe Axeman of New Orleans by Miriam C. Davis
New Orleans Noir
41 books — 2 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Long Good-bye by Raymond ChandlerOf Towers & Shadows by Dennis A. Feece
Best Hardboiled Crime Novels
118 books — 103 voters

Richard Brautigan
“ Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore. ”
― Richard Brautigan, در رؤیای بابل

Christopher G. Moore
“ My goal is to live far outside of history as possible. History is a territory where mostly bad things happen to good people. ”
― Christopher G. Moore, Crackdown

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