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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 173,965 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 119,307 ratings — published 1930
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,326 ratings — published 1940
The Elephant Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 45,573 ratings — published 2010
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 38 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,628 ratings — published 1953
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 37 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,810 ratings — published 1929
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.94 — 45,704 ratings — published 2012
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 31 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,326 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 31 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,538 ratings — published 1942
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 29 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,633 ratings — published 1949
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,539 ratings — published 1934
Double Indemnity (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,529 ratings — published 1936
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 101,792 ratings — published 1987
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,094 ratings — published 1931
The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,371 ratings — published 1949
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.97 — 15,833 ratings — published 1962
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,328 ratings — published 1951
Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 70,737 ratings — published 1991
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.75 — 51,055 ratings — published 1934
A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,124 ratings — published 1957
The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
by (shelved 15 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.78 — 8,754 ratings — published 1929
The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,845 ratings — published 1976
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 41,567 ratings — published 1990
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 30,723 ratings — published 1952
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,997 ratings — published 1947
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.79 — 11,475 ratings — published 1958
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,295 ratings — published 1950
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 118,381 ratings — published 2002
The Continental Op (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,686 ratings — published 1930
Galveston (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,813 ratings — published 2010
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,755 ratings — published 1950
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 31,920 ratings — published 1990
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,353 ratings — published 1995
Shoot the Piano Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,765 ratings — published 1956
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.63 — 382,067 ratings — published 2018
The Man with the Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,989 ratings — published 1963
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.96 — 128,861 ratings — published 1955
Pop. 1280 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.03 — 13,301 ratings — published 1964
The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,737 ratings — published 1958
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,604 ratings — published 1963
Angels Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.07 — 58,911 ratings — published 2006
Black Money (Lew Archer, #13)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,587 ratings — published 1966
The Outfit (Parker, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,523 ratings — published 1963
Sin City, Vol. 4: That Yellow Bastard (Sin City, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.24 — 26,705 ratings — published 1996
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,462 ratings — published 1988
The Chill (Lew Archer, #11)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,024 ratings — published 1964
The Ivory Grin (Lew Archer, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,874 ratings — published 1952
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,178 ratings — published 1947
The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels (Vintage Crime)
by (shelved 9 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,327 ratings — published 1927
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as hardboiled)
avg rating 3.90 — 226,455 ratings — published 2004
“You’ll tell me. I want to tell him he doesn’t have to pay her off any more.”
“Why not?”
“She’s dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want.”
― The Hunter
“Why not?”
“She’s dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want.”
― The Hunter
“Kenneth Oscuro ripped off 13 cartons of cigarettes from a bodega. He then turned around and swapped them, even up, at a pawnshop for a 12-inch cutthroat razor. He made it his most prized possession.”
― Outside the Wire: A Washington, D.C. Private Eye Novel
― Outside the Wire: A Washington, D.C. Private Eye Novel
