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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Unnatural Inquirer
Simon R. Green · 256 pages
Poodle Springs
Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker · 290 pages
A German Requiem
Philip Kerr · 313 pages
Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler · 249 pages
This is one of Chandler’s most famous crime novels featuring the detective Philip Marlowe, who’s about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.
Nick's Trip
George P. Pelecanos · 285 pages
"After his "promising" (Kirkus Reviews) debut novel, A Firing Offense, George Pelecanos has come into his own with this complex and powerful new novel of virtue and betrayal."--BOOK JACKET. "Nick Stefanos, having earned his p.i. license, quickly discovers that snapping photos of unfaithful husbands isn't his thing. Tending bar at the Spot, Nick is closing one night when his high school friend Bill
A Drop of the Hard Stuff
Lawrence Block · 319 pages
After a childhood friend is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to upset his path toward recovery--and get him killed in the process.
The Godwulf Manuscript
Robert B. Parker · 190 pages
Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest. The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder weapon but Spenser knows there are no easy answers. He tackles
Cross
Ken Bruen · 288 pages
A boy has been crucified in Galway city. People are shocked; the broadsheets debate what this says about the state of the nation; the Irish Church is scandalised. No further action is taken. When the sister of the murdered boy is burned alive, PI Jack Taylor decides to take matters into his own hands. Taylor’s investigations lead him to some old city haunts where he encounters ghosts – living and
Bad Boy Brawly Brown
Walter Mosley · 320 pages
Bloodcircle
P.N. Elrod · 202 pages
Anonymous Rex
Eric Garcia · 303 pages
**Publisher's summary:** Private investigator Vincent Rubio is down on his luck: He's out of work. His car's been repossessed. He's been banned from The Council. His partner has died under mysterious circumstances. And his tail just won't stay put. Vincent is a dinosaur - a velociraptor, to be precise. The dinosaurs faked their extinction 65 million years ago and still roam the planet, wrapped up
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
Dead Point
Peter Temple · 305 pages
It takes a lot to rattle Jack Irish but, as Melbourne descends into a cold, wet winter, his mood is on the same trajectory. The woman in Jack's life has reconnected with an old flame. He has gambled and lost massively and seen a champion horse put down. Worst of all, hijackers have robbed and brutally beaten one of the gambling team. So it's not surprising that Jack's mind is not fully on the job
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
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.
Stolen Away
Max Allan Collins · 561 pages
The Long-Legged Fly
James Sallis, Carol Lea Benjamin · 184 pages
One Lonely Night
Mickey Spillane · 215 pages
PI Mike Hammer is out for a late-night walk in the rain when he sees a woman being pursued across a bridge. He deals with the man, but, terrified, the woman jumps to her death. Pat Chambers, Hammer's police department friend, identifies the pair as Communists. Into the mix comes Oscar, the insane brother of a political candidate on an anti-corruption ticket, who Hammer must deal with so that the p
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
A Drink Before the War/Darkness, Take My Hand
Dennis Lehane · 656 pages
Arctic-Nation
Juan Diaz Canales, Juanjo Guarnido · 72 pages
Farewell, My Deuce
Renee Pawlish · 208 pages