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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 172,945 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 118,627 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,093 ratings — published 1940
The Elephant Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 45,227 ratings — published 2010
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 38 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,307 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 37 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,627 ratings — published 1929
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.95 — 45,389 ratings — published 2012
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 31 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,139 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 31 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,386 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 29 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,528 ratings — published 1949
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,352 ratings — published 1934
Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by (shelved 22 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,347 ratings — published 1936
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 101,295 ratings — published 1987
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 14,037 ratings — published 1931
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,318 ratings — published 1949
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,649 ratings — published 1962
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,309 ratings — published 1951
Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 70,436 ratings — published 1991
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.76 — 50,608 ratings — published 1934
A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,012 ratings — published 1957
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,692 ratings — published 1929
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,773 ratings — published 1976
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 41,350 ratings — published 1990
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 30,510 ratings — published 1952
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,952 ratings — published 1947
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 11,406 ratings — published 1958
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,250 ratings — published 1950
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 31,561 ratings — published 1990
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 117,796 ratings — published 2002
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,675 ratings — published 1930
Galveston (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,719 ratings — published 2010
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,705 ratings — published 1950
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,155 ratings — published 1995
Shoot the Piano Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,754 ratings — published 1956
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.63 — 375,099 ratings — published 2018
The Man with the Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,910 ratings — published 1963
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.96 — 126,993 ratings — published 1955
Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,138 ratings — published 1964
The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,712 ratings — published 1958
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,554 ratings — published 1963
Angels Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.07 — 58,639 ratings — published 2006
Black Money (Lew Archer, #13)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,557 ratings — published 1966
The Outfit (Parker, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,466 ratings — published 1963
Sin City, Vol. 4: That Yellow Bastard (Sin City, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.24 — 26,671 ratings — published 1996
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,330 ratings — published 1988
The Chill (Lew Archer, #11)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,980 ratings — published 1964
The Ivory Grin (Lew Archer, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,854 ratings — published 1952
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,942 ratings — published 1947
The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels (Vintage Crime)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,325 ratings — published 1927
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 225,713 ratings — published 2004
“I loved the chase. Even Riveaux’s insane driving. Not just the velocity but the violence of it all. I liked speeding through red lights. Headfirst to the edge. Scraping enough skin to burn not bleed. Sleuthing was impossible sometimes, a doomed quest. It was godly, really. A gorgeous curse. Like a plague of locusts. Like kissing a married woman.”
― Scorched Grace
― Scorched Grace
“Why did I throw in with him? I suppose we Irish had a mule-headed loyalty baked into our DNA. I could rely on one bedrock truth. Gerald had my back, no matter how lopsided the odds turned. No truer measure of friendship existed to my way of thinking.”
― Death Car
― Death Car
