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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler · 220 pages
Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder
Murder on the Yellow Brick Road
Stuart M. Kaminsky · 192 pages
A Savage Place
Robert B. Parker · 184 pages
The Second Rule of Ten
Gay Hendricks, Tinker Lindsay
The Monkey's Raincoat
Robert Crais · 245 pages
When Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole investigates the disappearance of Ellen Lang's husband and young son, he stumbles into a bizarre nightmare of high-level intrigue, missing drugs, and murder in Hollywood's seamy underworld.
A Darkness More Than Night
Michael Connelly · 418 pages
Terrence McCaleb is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate a series of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ritualized killings that McCaleb specialized in solving with the FBI, and he is reluctantly drawn from his peaceful new life back into the horror and excitement of tracking down a terrifying homicidal maniac. More horrifying still, the suspect who seems to fit the profile
Umney's Last Case
Stephen King · 92 pages
Stephen King's brilliant homage to Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald's noir classics--complete with a hard-bitten private eye who has bitten off a bit more than he can chew. --back cover
The Unquiet Heart
Gordon Ferris · 269 pages
"Danny McRae, private detective scraping a living in ration-card London. Eve Copeland, crime reporter, looking for new angles to save her career. It's an alliance made in heaven." "Until Eve disappears, a contact dies violently and an old adversary presents Danny with some unpalatable truths." "His desperate search for his lover draws him into a web of black marketeers, double agents and assassins
Death Trick
Richard Stevenson · 212 pages
Gay activist and ... accused murderer? Billy Blount's missing, but Albany PI Donald Strachey doubts Billy's guilt. The 1981 book that launched Richard Stevenson's pioneering series is a cracking mystery and a fascinating trip into bygone gay culture-- before HIV, in the bad old days of bath houses and gay disco, police corruption and tacit policies of harassment.
Death Masks
Jim Butcher · 416 pages
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, is hired by a mysterious priest to find the stolen shroud of Turin.
Motor City Blue
Loren D. Estleman · 219 pages
Marla Bernstein is a pretty, dark-haired teenager who happens to be the ward of Ben Morningstara semi-retired mobster. When Marla suddenly disappears, the gang boss is forced to call in private eye Amos Walker. Unfortunately, the only clue to Marla's whereabouts is a pornographic photograph that clearly proves that she's become part of a world that disgusts even her criminal guardian. The photo l
A Drink Before the War/Darkness, Take My Hand
Dennis Lehane · 656 pages
Charcoal Joe
Walter Mosley · 320 pages
"Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve. Charcoal Joe has asked Easy to help clear Joe's son, who was found standing over a white man's dead body in his cabin home"--
Sleeping Beauty
Ross Macdonald · 271 pages
Private detective Lew Archer challenges the power and ruthlessness of an oil dynasty responsible for a spill on the Southern California coast.
Innocent Monster
Reed Farrel Coleman · 291 pages
Seven years have passed since the brutal murder that tore Moe Prager's family apart, when his estranged daughter Sarah comes to him with a request he cannot refuse. Sashi Bluntstone, an eleven-year-old art prodigy and daughter of Sarah's dearest childhood friend, has been abducted. As Moe stumbles around the fringes of the New York art scene, he discovers that suspects abound beyond the usual pred
All the Flowers Are Dying
Lawrence Block · 296 pages
In his sixteenth Matthew Scudder novel, All the Flowers Are Dying, New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Block takes the award-winning series to a new level of suspense and a new depth of characterization. Building on the critical and commercial success of Hope to Die, Block puts Scudder -- and the reader -- at the very edge of the abyss. Scudder, a complex character who has grown and aged in
Poodle Springs
Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker · 290 pages
Self's Punishment
Bernhard Schlink, Walter Popp · 256 pages
The Return of the Continental Op
Dashiell Hammett
Spade & Archer: The Prequel to The Maltese Falcon
Joe Gores · 352 pages
When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favours, and no way for anyone to get underneath the protective shell he wears like a second skin. Spade is sleeping with his late partner, Miles Archer's wife. This novel reveals how Spade became who he is.