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Hardboiled
Hardboiled detective fiction is a literary style which portrays crime and violence in an unsentimental way.
Pioneered by Carroll John Daly in the mid-1920s, popularized by Dashiell Hammett over the course of the decade, and refined by Raymond Chandler beginning in the late 1930s, hardboiled fiction...
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The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine "Black Mask". The story has been adapted several times for the cinema. The main character, Sam Spade, appears only in this novel and in three...
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- 1930
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The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep (1939) is a crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first in his acclaimed series about hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe. The work has been adapted twice into film, once in 1946 and again in 1978.
The story is noted for its complexity...
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- 1939
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Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce is a novel (1941) by James M. Cain. It was made into an Oscar-winning feature film starring Joan Crawford.
Set in Los Angeles in the 1930s, Mildred Pierce is the story of a middle-class housewife's attempt to maintain her and her...
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- 1941
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Farewell, My Lovely
Farewell, My Lovely is a 1940 novel by Raymond Chandler, the second novel he wrote featuring Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe. It was adapted for the screen three times.
A chance encounter with hulking ex-con Moose Malloy on Los Angeles'...
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- 1940
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The Long Goodbye
The Long Good-bye (ISBN 0-394-75768-8) is a 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler, centered on his famous detective Philip Marlowe. While some consider it not on the level of The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, others rank it as the best of his work. It...
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- 1953
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Altered Carbon
Altered Carbon (2002) is a hardboiled science fiction novel by Richard K. Morgan. Set some five hundred years in the future in a universe in which the United Nations Protectorate oversees a number of extrasolar planets settled by human beings, it...
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- Feb 28, 2002
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Gun, with Occasional Music
Gun, with Occasional Music is a 1994 novel by Jonathan Lethem. It blends science fiction and hardboiled detective fiction. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1994.
The novel follows the adventures of Conrad Metcalf, a tough guy...
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- Mar 1994
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The Lady in the Lake
The Lady in the Lake is a 1943 detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring, as do all his major works, the Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe.
Notable for its removal of Marlowe from his usual Los Angeles environs for much of the book...
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- 1943
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Playback
Playback is the final complete novel by Raymond Chandler, which features his iconic creation Philip Marlowe. It was published in 1958, the year before his death.
The book puts Marlowe in the position of turning against a client who has hired him ...
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- 1958
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1990 hardboiled mystery novel by Walter Mosley.
The book was adapted into a 1995 film of the same name, which starred Denzel Washington as Easy Rawlins, and also featured Jennifer Beals, Tom Sizemore, Maury Chaykin, and...
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The High Window
The High Window is a 1942 novel written by Raymond Chandler. It is his third novel to feature Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe.
The story begins when Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher...
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- 1942
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Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasures is a horror/mystery novel by Laurell K. Hamilton.
Guilty Pleasures introduces the character of Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and her world, an alternate history where magic, vampires, werewolves and other supernatural elements are...
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- 1993
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The Laughing Corpse
The Laughing Corpse is the second novel in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series of horror/mystery novels by Laurell K. Hamilton.
The Laughing Corpse continues the adventures of Anita Blake, as she attempts to solve a particularly grisly set of...
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- Sep 1, 1994
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Poodle Springs
Poodle Springs is the eighth Philip Marlowe novel. It was started in 1958 by Raymond Chandler, who left it unfinished at his death in 1959. The four chapters he had completed, which bore the working title "The Poodle Springs Story", were...
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- Oct 1989
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Silent to the Bone
Silent to the Bone is a young adult novel by E. L. Konigsburg, published in 2000.
Silent to the Bone is written from the point of view of a boy named Connor Kane. In the beginning, Connor's friend Branwell Zamborska is accused of dropping his baby...
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- 2000
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Already Dead
Already Dead is the Horror and pulp-noir novel by Charlie Huston and published in 2005. This is the first of the Joe Pitt Casebooks.
Already Dead follows the adventures of a vampyre named Joe Pitt as he tries to figure out a mysterious zombie...
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- Dec 27, 2005
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No Dominion
No Dominion is a 2006 horror novel by American writer Charlie Huston. This book is the sequel to Already Dead and follows the life of the vampire detective, Joe Pitt.
No Dominion Is the second Joe Pitt Case Book written by Charlie Huston. Vampyre...
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- Dec 26, 2006
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Snabba cash
Snabba cash or Fast cash is a Stockholm noir novel from 2006 by Jens Lapidus. It has been a success in term of sales, and the paperback was the fourth best seller of Swedish novels in 2007. The book was praised by critics and introduced a new genre...
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- 2006
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
A violent story of the kidnapping, torture and rape of a wealthy socialite at the hands of a brutal criminal. A play and later several films were adapted from this 1939 book.
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- 1939
