 | The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.94 The classic first novel by the master of hard-boiled fiction. Beautifully written, loaded with heavy imagery, twists, turns, and witty dialog. This is a must read for anyone in interested in great 20th century literature.
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 | Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $1.98 One of my favorite books of all time. Here we have Hammet's first novel featuring the Continental Op's detective with No Name. This violent story of a corrupted town was the inspiration for a few major films, (Kurosawa's Yojimbo, and Leone's Fistfull of Dollars). Pick it up and you wont be able to put it down.
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 | Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.42 Short, simple, and easy to read. This book can easily be read in one sitting. Many consider the film to be far better (Directed by Billy Wilder, written by Raymond Chandler), but wait to you read the ending of this one.
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 | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Agatha Christie Collection) by Agatha Christie
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $1.81 A masterpiece in Christie's classic "whodunit style", that will leave you guessing until the very end. My Favorite Hercule Poirot mystery.
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 | The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $4.88 A haunting, psychological thriller written in the first person by the killer himself. Thompson's most disturbing and believable novel brings the reader deep into a small texas town, and into the mind of a serial killer. The consistency isnt there, but this book picks up about halfway through, and grabs the reader until the last page.
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 | The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall
Buy used from: $1.60 One rainy night in Stockholm, a double decker bus crashes, and all of its passengers are brutally executed. A cast of colorful detectives are to get to the bottom of this unusual mass killing. Maj and Per show us the harsh realities of the city's underworld, and bring us into the personal lives of every character.
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 | The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Buy used from: $0.01 Highsmith's finest novel, and one of the greatest mysteries you will ever read. Dont bother with the movie, the book is much more interesting, complex, and strange.
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 | The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Buy new: $9.20 / Used from: $0.01 Another classic. Well-written, hard-boiled, loaded with twists and turns throughout the streets of San Francisco. Although I feel Red Harvest is his better novel, this one is right up there.
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 | The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $1.08 Another great one by Chandler. Nice and long, with an unforgettable ending. Brilliant!
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