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Hard Boiled Detective Books
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.94 — 172,564 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.86 — 118,383 ratings — published 1930
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 7 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,161 ratings — published 1953
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 7 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.06 — 29,061 ratings — published 1943
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,998 ratings — published 1940
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,289 ratings — published 1934
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 6 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,486 ratings — published 1949
The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,071 ratings — published 1973
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.92 — 14,015 ratings — published 1931
My Gun Is Quick (Mike Hammer #2)
by (shelved 5 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,696 ratings — published 1950
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 5 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,569 ratings — published 1929
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,315 ratings — published 1942
Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges #1)
by (shelved 4 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.04 — 388,764 ratings — published 2014
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 4 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.79 — 11,373 ratings — published 1958
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,674 ratings — published 1929
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,695 ratings — published 1950
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.93 — 47,673 ratings — published 1994
The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.02 — 32,569 ratings — published 1987
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.15 — 221,248 ratings — published 1992
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.89 — 637,569 ratings — published 2013
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.86 — 194,292 ratings — published 1982
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,935 ratings — published 1947
God Save The Child (Spenser, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,966 ratings — published 1974
The Falls (Inspector Rebus, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.05 — 15,962 ratings — published 2001
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.03 — 117,552 ratings — published 2002
Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.82 — 63,061 ratings — published 1923
Turn on the Heat (Hard Case Crime, 131)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.78 — 711 ratings — published 1940
Gold Comes in Bricks (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.86 — 265 ratings — published 1940
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.86 — 31,385 ratings — published 1990
Black Betty (Easy Rawlins, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,820 ratings — published 1994
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,299 ratings — published 1949
The Wrong Side of Goodbye (Harry Bosch, #19; Harry Bosch Universe, #29)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.34 — 81,599 ratings — published 2016
A Hell of a Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,966 ratings — published 1954
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.19 — 41,199 ratings — published 1990
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.80 — 101,021 ratings — published 1987
The Simple Art of Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,347 ratings — published 1944
IQ (IQ, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.77 — 22,740 ratings — published 2016
Skin Game (The Dresden Files, #15)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.56 — 94,455 ratings — published 2014
Malice (Detective Kaga, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.06 — 38,697 ratings — published 1996
The Crossing (Harry Bosch, #18; Harry Bosch Universe, #28)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.29 — 74,125 ratings — published 2015
The Burning Room (Harry Bosch, #17; Harry Bosch Universe, #27)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.14 — 69,132 ratings — published 2014
The Black Box (Harry Bosch, #16; Harry Bosch Universe, #25)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.16 — 70,465 ratings — published 2012
The Drop (Harry Bosch, #15; Harry Bosch Universe, #24)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.21 — 77,169 ratings — published 2011
Taken (Elvis Cole, #15; Joe Pike, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.23 — 21,424 ratings — published 2012
The Snatch (Nameless Detective, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.78 — 574 ratings — published 1971
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.05 — 300,194 ratings — published 2014
Lifeblood (Vampire Files, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,440 ratings — published 1990
Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.26 — 165,198 ratings — published 2002
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.97 — 389,094 ratings — published 2000
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.97 — 217,131 ratings — published 2001
“Sometimes a girl's gotta be bad to be good.
Murder in the Dog Park”
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Murder in the Dog Park”
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“To catch the bad guys, you've got to think like a bad guy - and that's why all the best detectives have a dark side...”
― The Theseus Paradox
― The Theseus Paradox
