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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 1096 times as noir)
avg rating 3.94 — 173,778 ratings — published 1939
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 832 times as noir)
avg rating 3.86 — 119,202 ratings — published 1930
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 598 times as noir)
avg rating 3.75 — 50,985 ratings — published 1934
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 527 times as noir)
avg rating 3.80 — 101,706 ratings — published 1987
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 510 times as noir)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,579 ratings — published 1953
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 498 times as noir)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,294 ratings — published 1940
Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by (shelved 481 times as noir)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,498 ratings — published 1936
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 396 times as noir)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,510 ratings — published 1934
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
by (shelved 393 times as noir)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,769 ratings — published 1929
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 359 times as noir)
avg rating 4.19 — 41,533 ratings — published 1990
The Killer Inside Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 353 times as noir)
avg rating 3.90 — 30,684 ratings — published 1952
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
by (shelved 348 times as noir)
avg rating 4.06 — 29,227 ratings — published 1943
The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
by (shelved 325 times as noir)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,516 ratings — published 1942
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 281 times as noir)
avg rating 3.94 — 45,617 ratings — published 2012
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 280 times as noir)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,606 ratings — published 1949
In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as noir)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,134 ratings — published 1947
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
by (shelved 240 times as noir)
avg rating 4.03 — 118,274 ratings — published 2002
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 231 times as noir)
avg rating 3.86 — 31,885 ratings — published 1990
The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 218 times as noir)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,441 ratings — published 1988
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as noir)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,085 ratings — published 1931
The Elephant Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 45,457 ratings — published 2010
Velvet Was the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as noir)
avg rating 3.51 — 31,726 ratings — published 2021
American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
by (shelved 204 times as noir)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,319 ratings — published 1995
Strangers on a Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as noir)
avg rating 3.72 — 40,607 ratings — published 1950
The Hunter (Parker, #1)
by (shelved 190 times as noir)
avg rating 3.97 — 15,793 ratings — published 1962
The Grifters (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,601 ratings — published 1963
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 178 times as noir)
avg rating 3.96 — 128,580 ratings — published 1955
Pop. 1280 (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as noir)
avg rating 4.03 — 13,281 ratings — published 1964
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
by (shelved 174 times as noir)
avg rating 3.79 — 11,466 ratings — published 1958
Mildred Pierce (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as noir)
avg rating 3.93 — 11,128 ratings — published 1941
Queenpin (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 165 times as noir)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,037 ratings — published 2007
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 159 times as noir)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,529,689 ratings — published 2005
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as noir)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,783 ratings — published 1935
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 154 times as noir)
avg rating 3.96 — 391,674 ratings — published 2000
Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as noir)
avg rating 4.17 — 70,681 ratings — published 1991
White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 152 times as noir)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,497 ratings — published 1992
Galveston (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as noir)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,803 ratings — published 2010
Nightmare Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as noir)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,619 ratings — published 1946
Inherent Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as noir)
avg rating 3.80 — 39,991 ratings — published 2009
Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
by (shelved 146 times as noir)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,289 ratings — published 1950
Black Wings Has My Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as noir)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,057 ratings — published 1953
Shoot the Piano Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as noir)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,762 ratings — published 1956
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as noir)
avg rating 3.89 — 82,784 ratings — published 2009
Gun, With Occasional Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as noir)
avg rating 3.76 — 11,888 ratings — published 1994
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as noir)
avg rating 4.17 — 269,361 ratings — published 2005
Die a Little (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as noir)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,932 ratings — published 2005
Fatale, Vol. 1: Death Chases Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as noir)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,990 ratings — published 2012
The Bride Wore Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as noir)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,940 ratings — published 1940
“I'd done it, I'd crossed the line between accepted behavior and behavior most of the population would consider a lynching offense, and that morning I felt as real as any of the men in the Escape commercials. It had been dirty and nasty but I wanted more.”
― High Life
― High Life
“She’s a cop’s wife. She understands what her husband does for a living,” the priest said.”
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
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