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List of Hard Case Crime novels. The series recreates, in editorial form and content, the style of the paperback crime novels of the 1940s and '50s. The collection includes both reprints of books from the pulp era and new novels written for the collection.

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Librarians Note: Books 1-66 were number sequentially. Books 67 & 68 are a double volume. After that the numbering skips to 101. After 101, books are again numbered squentially (101, 102, 103...). Therefore, the book number do not match the list numbers after number 66.
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message 1: by Robert (new)

Robert big fan! love 50's crime noir


message 2: by Guillermo (new)

Guillermo Galvan Check out that art work!


message 3: by Mr (new)

Mr Best thing going since fawcett gold medal and the like. Good article on the artwork in the current juxtapoz http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/hard-.... Very nice list.


message 4: by Matt (new)

Matt Thanks for building this list. Great stuff.


message 5: by Emma (new)

Emma Craven Great list! I only recently found Hard Case Crime and I am looking forward to reading plenty more.


message 6: by Lisa (last edited Jul 14, 2014 05:49PM) (new)

Lisa I read about Hard Case Crime today, at MobileRead and then at Wikipedia, which then prompted me to seek out this GoodReads list; thank you for compiling it! I'm looking forward to working may way through the list (starting with Stephen King's books).


message 7: by Mc (new)

Mc Love this list, thanks! Making my way through the series now.


Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* Great list


message 9: by Doc (new)

Doc Ezra Great resource...now if only I could click a button and build a reading list/shelf out of this list automagically. :)


message 10: by David (new)

David Merrill I've been reading Hard Case Crime books for a while. I was even a subscriber for a short time. You can't really go wrong with any of their books. Thanks for building this list. I just wish they were all numbered. I was trying to rate the ones I've read as I scrolled down. I may have missed a few. I've read about 20 of them so far and own another 25 I haven't read yet. I've been binging on them the last few weeks. Definitely hitting the spot right now.


Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* I miss the old Dorchester/Leisure book club. Loved getting these - still pick them up when I have a chance.


message 12: by Greg (new)

Greg I just discovered this "Hard Crime" series and have read six so far. Some are indeed worth republishing. I've read six so far and will be reading more, as I have several from the library here at home on my 'to read' shelf.


message 13: by Jade (last edited May 15, 2018 10:43AM) (new)

Jade Kauffman Brainquake by Fuller is on this list twice as 40 and 28 if you follow the numbering on this page, though 1 is repeated so I renumbered in my audiobooks list. These are sometimes really difficult to find on audio and I can't read books anymore so I'm getting behind.


message 14: by Jade (new)

Jade Kauffman The Gutter and the Grave is shown on this list as having been written by Curt Cannon and by Ed McBain. I believe it belongs to Mr. McBain.


message 15: by Jade (new)

Jade Kauffman Lucky at cards is on this list as authored by Sheldon Lord, not a Mc Bain (Hunter) pseudonym as far as I know, and the copy of this audiobook on my shelf shows Ed McBain as the author.


message 16: by Jade (new)

Jade Kauffman Tne list shows that Killing Castro was written by Lee Duncan. It was written by Lawrence Block.


message 17: by Jade (new)

Jade Kauffman Getting Off is also listed as a Jill Emerson publication. Lawrence Block in his own name, claims credit for this one.


message 18: by Jade (new)

Jade Kauffman And Gore Vidal wrote Thieves Fall Out, not Cameron Kay. And that give me 97 books which leads me to a question. When the Hard Case Crime list was announced, the publishers said they had chosen the 89 books that would be on that list. So how did we get to 97?


message 19: by Barbara (new)

Barbara McPartland I have over 80 HCC books. they are all great reads.
They remind me of the 1960's Carter Brown books. Yes I'm that old! Most of all the book covers are great Esp.those of Robert E. McGinnis. Love his art work. The women always look wonderful.Sincerly
Manfred Bohmer


message 20: by Greg (new)

Greg Jade wrote: "And Gore Vidal wrote Thieves Fall Out, not Cameron Kay. And that give me 97 books which leads me to a question. When the Hard Case Crime list was announced, the publishers said they had chosen the ..."

Jade, I think they had no idea that this series could be so popular. Seems like I find another one at the library I haven't heard about every trip to the library.


message 21: by Greg (new)

Greg Guillermo wrote: "Check out that art work!"

Guillermo, I read some place that authors had been presented the cover and asked to author the most outrageous plot they could think of from the ready-to-publish covers.


message 22: by Scott (new)

Scott Jade wrote: "Getting Off is also listed as a Jill Emerson publication. Lawrence Block in his own name, claims credit for this one."

It is GR policy to list first the name under which the book was originally published.


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