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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 — 170,518 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.86 — 116,934 ratings — published 1930
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 7 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.19 — 47,462 ratings — published 1953
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 7 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,588 ratings — published 1943
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,410 ratings — published 1940
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.89 — 38,789 ratings — published 1934
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 6 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,205 ratings — published 1949
The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.92 — 21,706 ratings — published 1973
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,866 ratings — published 1931
My Gun Is Quick (Mike Hammer #2)
by (shelved 5 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,673 ratings — published 1950
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 5 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,171 ratings — published 1929
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,907 ratings — published 1942
Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges #1)
by (shelved 4 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.04 — 382,272 ratings — published 2014
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 4 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.79 — 11,240 ratings — published 1958
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,580 ratings — published 1929
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,632 ratings — published 1950
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.93 — 46,988 ratings — published 1994
The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.02 — 32,024 ratings — published 1987
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.14 — 218,667 ratings — published 1992
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.89 — 632,262 ratings — published 2013
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.86 — 193,030 ratings — published 1982
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,854 ratings — published 1947
God Save The Child (Spenser, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,772 ratings — published 1974
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.03 — 116,332 ratings — published 2002
Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.82 — 62,244 ratings — published 1923
Turn on the Heat (Hard Case Crime, 131)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.78 — 690 ratings — published 1940
Gold Comes in Bricks (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.85 — 258 ratings — published 1940
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,666 ratings — published 1990
Black Betty (Easy Rawlins, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,763 ratings — published 1994
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,212 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 — 80,543 ratings — published 2016
A Hell of a Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,912 ratings — published 1954
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.18 — 39,981 ratings — published 1990
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.79 — 99,151 ratings — published 1987
The Simple Art of Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,314 ratings — published 1944
IQ (IQ, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.77 — 22,547 ratings — published 2016
Skin Game (The Dresden Files, #15)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.56 — 93,468 ratings — published 2014
Malice (Detective Kaga, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.06 — 37,151 ratings — published 1996
The Crossing (Harry Bosch, #18; Harry Bosch Universe, #28)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.29 — 72,745 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 — 67,853 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 — 69,215 ratings — published 2012
The Drop (Harry Bosch, #15; Harry Bosch Universe, #24)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.21 — 75,955 ratings — published 2011
Taken (Elvis Cole, #15; Joe Pike, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.23 — 21,239 ratings — published 2012
The Snatch (Nameless Detective, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.79 — 568 ratings — published 1971
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.05 — 297,228 ratings — published 2014
Lifeblood (Vampire Files, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,436 ratings — published 1990
Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.26 — 163,402 ratings — published 2002
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.97 — 384,065 ratings — published 2000
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.97 — 214,270 ratings — published 2001
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.90 — 289,092 ratings — published 2005
“My glass is not only half-empty, I'm convinced someone spit in it.”
― Sportsman's Bet
― Sportsman's Bet
“Calvino remembered he had no food in the house and would have to go shopping on Sukhumvit Road. Then he planned to crawl into his bed and sleep, the kind of deep sleep without dreams or hopes, a sleep without regrets, without knowing or thinking how things got the way they are or how occasional fragments of decency escaped the forces of gravity.”
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