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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.94 — 173,591 ratings — published 1939
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.75 — 50,889 ratings — published 1934
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.90 — 30,643 ratings — published 1952
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.86 — 119,066 ratings — published 1930
Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by (shelved 31 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,457 ratings — published 1936
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.97 — 15,756 ratings — published 1962
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.80 — 101,608 ratings — published 1987
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,248 ratings — published 1940
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 21 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,509 ratings — published 1953
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,103 ratings — published 1947
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 21 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,745 ratings — published 1929
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.19 — 41,494 ratings — published 1990
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 20 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,243 ratings — published 1964
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,592 ratings — published 1963
Galveston (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,790 ratings — published 2010
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,466 ratings — published 1934
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.17 — 268,606 ratings — published 2005
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,526,750 ratings — published 2005
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,253 ratings — published 1943
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.96 — 128,240 ratings — published 1955
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,421 ratings — published 1988
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,522 ratings — published 1971
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 15 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,284 ratings — published 1995
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,491 ratings — published 1942
The Getaway (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.84 — 9,920 ratings — published 1958
The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,942 ratings — published 1978
Black Wings Has My Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,042 ratings — published 1953
The Bride Wore Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,937 ratings — published 1940
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.86 — 31,832 ratings — published 1990
A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,090 ratings — published 1957
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.09 — 755,553 ratings — published 1966
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,070 ratings — published 1931
Nightmare Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,612 ratings — published 1946
The Man with the Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,959 ratings — published 1963
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 11 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,596 ratings — published 1949
A Hell of a Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,001 ratings — published 1954
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,556,150 ratings — published 2012
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.78 — 454,093 ratings — published 2007
Joyland (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 187,365 ratings — published 2013
The Cocktail Waitress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,012 ratings — published 2012
Strangers on a Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.72 — 40,533 ratings — published 1950
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.15 — 222,556 ratings — published 1992
The Outfit (Parker, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,504 ratings — published 1963
The Big Clock (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,833 ratings — published 1946
The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,732 ratings — published 1958
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.89 — 82,603 ratings — published 2009
White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 10 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,482 ratings — published 1992
The Hot Spot (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,394 ratings — published 1953
Five Decembers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.38 — 16,555 ratings — published 2021
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as crime-noir)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,710,173 ratings — published 1939
“And like a fool, here I am again, lapping at the beast’s teats like a true fool, laying my head in the lion’s mouth as I hit it on the arse with a big stick.”
― Untethered
― Untethered
“The room buzzes around us but we’re fixed on each other, engaged in a battle of who can deprecate me more. She obviously doesn’t believe such a man can exist and keeps at it, prodding and goading me like a fisherman harpooning an already beached whale.”
― Untethered
― Untethered
