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by Raymond Chandler

10,346 members

285 reviews

4

9 Members: librookian, aulsmith, blackdove07, thecoroner, elkiedee, silvanograssotti, ahef1963, dh-writer, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

5,247 members

114 reviews

4.2

8 Members: librookian, aulsmith, blackdove07, thecoroner, silvanograssotti, ahef1963, dh-writer, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

9,198 members

280 reviews

3.9

7 Members: librookian, aulsmith, blackdove07, thecoroner, silvanograssotti, dh-writer, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Farewell, My Lovely

by Raymond Chandler

4,530 members

103 reviews

4.1

7 Members: librookian, aulsmith, thecoroner, silvanograssotti, ahef1963, dh-writer, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,426 members

476 reviews

4

6 Members: librookian, aulsmith, blackdove07, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Lady in the Lake

by Raymond Chandler

3,331 members

66 reviews

4

6 Members: librookian, aulsmith, thecoroner, silvanograssotti, dh-writer, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,251 members

199 reviews

3.9

5 Members: librookian, blackdove07, thecoroner, elkiedee, ahef1963

8

The Little Sister

by Raymond Chandler

2,442 members

56 reviews

3.9

5 Members: librookian, aulsmith, silvanograssotti, dh-writer, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

3,487 members

133 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: librookian, blackdove07, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by Raymond Chandler

1,834 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: librookian, aulsmith, dh-writer, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

43,371 members

1,752 reviews

4

4 Members: librookian, ahef1963, dh-writer, HH_Library

12

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

11,168 members

292 reviews

4

3 Members: librookian, blackdove07, ahef1963

13

19,244 members

494 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: blackdove07, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The New York Trilogy

9,881 members

155 reviews

3.9

4 Members: librookian, blackdove07, thecoroner, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

15

Shoot the Piano Player

by David Goodis

530 members

13 reviews

3.9

3 Members: librookian, thecoroner, ArchDucchess

16

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Michael Chabon

10,427 members

423 reviews

3.8

3 Members: librookian, ahef1963, HH_Library

17

by David Goodis

235 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: librookian, thecoroner, ArchDucchess

18

American Tabloid

by James Ellroy

2,853 members

44 reviews

4.1

3 Members: librookian, thecoroner, silvanograssotti

19

The High Window

by Raymond Chandler

2,832 members

52 reviews

4

3 Members: librookian, aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Girl Who Played with Fire

by Stieg Larsson

30,608 members

933 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, dh-writer, HH_Library

21

by Dashiell Hammett

2,070 members

45 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: librookian, aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Drowning Pool

by Ross Macdonald

824 members

15 reviews

3.8

3 Members: librookian, aulsmith, dh-writer

23

Double Indemnity

by James M. Cain

1,965 members

67 reviews

4

3 Members: librookian, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Trouble Is My Business [edition unknown]

by Raymond Chandler

248 members

4 reviews

3.9

3 Members: librookian, aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Charlie Huston

488 members

28 reviews

3.8

2 Members: librookian, fvg

26

The Burnt Orange Heresy

by Charles Willeford

283 members

4 reviews

3.9

2 Members: librookian, ArchDucchess

27

The Moving Target

by Ross Macdonald

765 members

36 reviews

3.8

3 Members: librookian, aulsmith, skid0612

28

Perchance to Dream

by Robert B. Parker

427 members

9 reviews

3.2

3 Members: librookian, aulsmith, dh-writer

29

The City & The City

by China Miéville

6,288 members

358 reviews

4

2 Members: blackdove07, ManWithAnAgenda

30

876 members

55 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: librookian, elkiedee

31

4,470 members

158 reviews

3.8

2 Members: HH_Library, skid0612

32

by Laura Lippman

899 members

56 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: librookian, HH_Library

33

The Black Dahlia

by James Ellroy

5,493 members

133 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: librookian, thecoroner

34

1,055 members

37 reviews

3.8

2 Members: librookian, elkiedee

35

by Charles Willeford

289 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: librookian, ArchDucchess

36

by Ross Macdonald

387 members

8 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, skid0612

37

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

by Stieg Larsson

25,414 members

729 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, dh-writer

38

L. A. Confidential

by James Ellroy

3,415 members

35 reviews

4.1

2 Members: librookian, thecoroner

39

by Dashiell Hammett

3,030 members

89 reviews

3.8

2 Members: librookian, aulsmith

40

by Ross Macdonald

576 members

16 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, skid0612

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2,737 members

95 reviews

4

Member: skid0612

42

by Patricia Cornwell

1,778 members

45 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: HH_Library

43

City of Margins

by William Boyle

41 members

3 reviews

4

Member: librookian

44

Death at La Fenice

3,573 members

132 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, HH_Library

45

by James Sallis

611 members

28 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: librookian, blackdove07

46

He Died with His Eyes Open

by Derek Raymond

426 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: librookian, blackdove07

47

by Dashiell Hammett

4,289 members

143 reviews

3.8

2 Members: librookian, thecoroner

48

by Dashiell Hammett

1,381 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: librookian, aulsmith

49

by Natsuo Kirino

804 members

35 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: librookian, blackdove07

50

The Continental Op: The Complete Case Files

by Dashiell Hammett

1,320 members

28 reviews

4.1

2 Members: librookian, aulsmith

51

The Killer Is Dying

by James Sallis

134 members

21 reviews

3.1

2 Members: librookian, blackdove07

52

Blacktop Wasteland

1,054 members

73 reviews

4

2 Members: librookian, HH_Library

53

Strangers on a Train

by Patricia Highsmith

2,589 members

87 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: librookian, ManWithAnAgenda

54

by Natsuo Kirino

1,320 members

37 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: librookian, blackdove07

55

The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels

by Dashiell Hammett

962 members

16 reviews

4.1

2 Members: librookian, aulsmith

56

by James Sallis

156 members

7 reviews

3.2

2 Members: librookian, blackdove07

57

by Ross Macdonald

738 members

23 reviews

4

2 Members: librookian, aulsmith

58

The Long-Legged Fly

by James Sallis

237 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: librookian, blackdove07

59

by Raymond Chandler

929 members

22 reviews

3.1

2 Members: librookian, aulsmith

60

Before the Frost

by Henning Mankell

2,604 members

61 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: librookian, ahef1963

61

Book of the Dead

by Patricia Cornwell

4,376 members

73 reviews

3.2

Member: HH_Library

62

1,059 members

60 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: skid0612

63

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

216 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: librookian

64

When Gravity Fails

by George Alec Effinger

1,472 members

34 reviews

3.8

2 Members: librookian, aulsmith

65

by Nicola Griffith

580 members

24 reviews

3.8

2 Members: librookian, aulsmith

66

by Joseph Hansen

467 members

21 reviews

3.9

2 Members: librookian, aulsmith

67

The Ferguson Affair

by Ross Macdonald

223 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: librookian, aulsmith

68

by Ross Macdonald

535 members

20 reviews

3.8

2 Members: librookian, aulsmith

69

by Denis Johnson

738 members

56 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: librookian

70

491 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: HH_Library

71

No Happy Ending

by Paco Ignacio Taibo II

120 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: skid0612

72

210 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: HH_Library

73

100 Bullets, Vol. 01: First Shot, Last Call

by Brian Azzarello

1,117 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: blackdove07

74

by Archer Mayor

195 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: HH_Library

75

by Sherri L. Smith

85 members

7 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: librookian

76

737 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: HH_Library

77

100 Bullets, Vol. 02: Split Second Chance

by Brian Azzarello

659 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: blackdove07

78

by Michael Connelly

5,631 members

165 reviews

3.9

Member: HH_Library

79

100 Bullets, Vol. 03: Hang Up on the Hang Low

by Brian Azzarello

532 members

10 reviews

4

Member: blackdove07

80

Gone, Baby, Gone

by Dennis Lehane

3,028 members

96 reviews

4

Member: skid0612

81

Dark Sacred Night

by Michael Connelly

2,074 members

76 reviews

3.9

Member: HH_Library

82

100 Bullets, Vol. 04: A Foregone Tomorrow

by Brian Azzarello

488 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: blackdove07

83

by Jim Thompson

316 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: skid0612

84

by Tonino Benacquista

103 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: skid0612

85

14,654 members

609 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

86

Smilla's Sense of Snow

7,401 members

163 reviews

3.8

Member: blackdove07

87

by Gillian Flynn

22,290 members

1,547 reviews

3.9

Member: HH_Library

88

10,125 members

304 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

89

8,789 members

247 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

90

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe

by Byron Preiss

203 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aulsmith

91

A Scanner Darkly

by Philip K. Dick

7,627 members

144 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

92

by Graham Greene

5,172 members

116 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

93

Faceless Killers

by Henning Mankell

5,355 members

206 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

94

The Dogs of Riga

by Henning Mankell

3,840 members

109 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

95

A Fire in the Sun

by George Alec Effinger

800 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

96

The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity

by James M. Cain

141 members

3 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

97

The Fifth Woman

by Henning Mankell

3,336 members

70 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

98

by George Alec Effinger

607 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

99

by Henning Mankell

2,953 members

58 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

100

The Foreign Correspondent

1,319 members

33 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

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