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 (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
The Glass Key
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
Hole to Hell Mystery by Stephanie Parker McKeanThe 36 Watchers by Dan Bar HavaPelham Fell Here by Ed LynskeyLake Charles by Ed LynskeyS'Mores Can Be Deadly by Violetta Armour
Ed Lynskey's Mystery Books
24 books — 31 voters
Reckless by Ed BrubakerPulp by Ed BrubakerBob 84. La vendetta è mia by Vincenzo FilosaNewburn, Volume 1 by Chip ZdarskyStumptown, Vol. 1 by Greg Rucka
Crime Comic book_Italian Users
34 books — 1 voter

The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
777 books — 1,018 voters

The Wrong Quarry by Max Allan CollinsBorderline by Lawrence BlockDrug of Choice by John LangeThieves Fall Out by Cameron KayBranded Woman by Wade Miller
Hard Case Crime
101 books — 3 voters

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Fred Zinnemann

Dashiell Hammett
Reno got busy arranging the rumor. The telephone was worked over-time. The kitchen door was worked as hard, letting men in and out. More came in than went out. The house filled with men, smoke, tension.
Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

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