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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 — 168,749 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,657 ratings — published 1930
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 7 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.19 — 46,832 ratings — published 1953
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 7 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,136 ratings — published 1943
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,929 ratings — published 1940
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.90 — 38,332 ratings — published 1934
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 6 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,881 ratings — published 1949
The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.92 — 21,471 ratings — published 1973
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,652 ratings — published 1931
My Gun Is Quick (Mike Hammer #2)
by (shelved 5 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,643 ratings — published 1950
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 5 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,803 ratings — published 1929
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,469 ratings — published 1942
Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.04 — 376,072 ratings — published 2014
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 4 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,111 ratings — published 1958
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,506 ratings — published 1929
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,570 ratings — published 1950
The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,667 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 — 216,714 ratings — published 1992
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.89 — 627,113 ratings — published 2013
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.86 — 192,097 ratings — published 1982
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,770 ratings — published 1947
God Save The Child (Spenser, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,614 ratings — published 1974
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.03 — 115,160 ratings — published 2002
Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.82 — 61,452 ratings — published 1923
Turn on the Heat (Hard Case Crime, 131)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.78 — 679 ratings — published 1940
Gold Comes in Bricks (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.86 — 253 ratings — published 1940
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,227 ratings — published 1990
Black Betty (Easy Rawlins, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,713 ratings — published 1994
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,129 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 — 79,574 ratings — published 2016
A Hell of a Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,866 ratings — published 1954
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.18 — 37,772 ratings — published 1990
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.78 — 96,662 ratings — published 1987
The Simple Art of Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,283 ratings — published 1944
IQ (IQ, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.77 — 22,333 ratings — published 2016
Skin Game (The Dresden Files, #15)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.56 — 92,491 ratings — published 2014
Malice (Detective Kaga, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,857 ratings — published 1996
The Crossing (Harry Bosch, #18; Harry Bosch Universe, #28)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.29 — 71,570 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 — 67,010 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 — 68,180 ratings — published 2012
The Drop (Harry Bosch, #15; Harry Bosch Universe, #24)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.21 — 74,997 ratings — published 2011
Taken (Elvis Cole, #15; Joe Pike, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.23 — 21,077 ratings — published 2012
The Snatch (Nameless Detective, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.79 — 564 ratings — published 1971
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.93 — 46,357 ratings — published 1994
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.05 — 294,397 ratings — published 2014
Lifeblood (Vampire Files, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,431 ratings — published 1990
Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 4.26 — 161,716 ratings — published 2002
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.97 — 378,848 ratings — published 2000
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.97 — 211,438 ratings — published 2001
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as hard-boiled-detective)
avg rating 3.90 — 284,797 ratings — published 2005
“Through his opened bedroom window, he noticed that the night sky had turned a crimson red. The moon, punctured by hues of cerulean blue, hung precariously over the withering willow trees that lined the riverbank, located several hundred yards away. The storm predicted by the forecasters was heading his way.”
― Call of the Nightingale
― Call of the Nightingale
“Parker spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle.”
― The Rare Coin Score
― The Rare Coin Score
