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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 151 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 173,811 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 119,235 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 91 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,300 ratings — published 1940
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 87 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,593 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 83 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,775 ratings — published 1929
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 75 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 29,235 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 70 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,525 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 54 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,620 ratings — published 1949
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,518 ratings — published 1934
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 41,541 ratings — published 1990
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.75 — 51,000 ratings — published 1934
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 40 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,292 ratings — published 1950
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,444 ratings — published 1988
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 101,722 ratings — published 1987
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 361,430 ratings — published 1997
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 36 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 11,470 ratings — published 1958
Double Indemnity (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,507 ratings — published 1936
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,088 ratings — published 1931
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.97 — 15,804 ratings — published 1962
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.78 — 8,747 ratings — published 1929
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 30,695 ratings — published 1952
The Colorado Kid (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.38 — 62,882 ratings — published 2005
Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.08 — 171,495 ratings — published 1998
The Simple Art of Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,372 ratings — published 1944
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,989 ratings — published 1947
Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 147,150 ratings — published 1999
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,840 ratings — published 1976
Pop. 1280 (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 13,287 ratings — published 1964
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,602 ratings — published 1963
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,686 ratings — published 1930
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 31,895 ratings — published 1990
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,751 ratings — published 1950
White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,497 ratings — published 1992
Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.16 — 43,813 ratings — published 1998
The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 21,221 ratings — published 1964
The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,951 ratings — published 1978
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 118,293 ratings — published 2002
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 194,923 ratings — published 1982
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,365 ratings — published 1949
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 48,035 ratings — published 1994
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,327 ratings — published 1951
Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro, #6)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 26,158 ratings — published 2010
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,324 ratings — published 1995
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,564 ratings — published 1971
Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.96 — 13,868 ratings — published 1992
D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone, #4)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 46,995 ratings — published 1987
Already Dead (Joe Pitt, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 10,798 ratings — published 2005
The Mourner (Parker, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,895 ratings — published 1963
I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 38,368 ratings — published 1992
M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-boiled)
avg rating 4.10 — 73,809 ratings — published 1996
“I'm part Chinese, part Hawaiian, part Filipino, and part nigger. You'd hate to be me”
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“I opened the other envelope. It contained a photograph of a girl. The pose suggested a natural ease, or a lot of experience in being photographed. It showed darkish hair which might possibly have been red, a wide clear forehead, serious eyes, high cheekbones, nervous nostrils and a mouth which was not giving anything away. It was a fine-drawn, almost a taut face, and not a happy one”
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