Hard Boiled category: 6975 books

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Slayground

A Parker Novel

by Richard Stark
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010

The hunter becomes prey, as a heist goes sour and Parker finds himself trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters. There are no exits from Fun Island. Outnumbered and outgunned, Parker can't afford a single miscalculation. He’s low on bullets—but, as anyone who’s...
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by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019

NEO-NOIR PULP EROTICA! Gambling debts, blackmail, some microfilm, a bottle of rye. Tongue on the roof of her mouth, hard-boiled exotic dancer Vicky Valentine loves solving a mystery. A scream. A dead stiff. A nymph giggling. Black and white chiaroscuro shadows represent Vicky's world. She's a globetrotting...
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by Craig Rice
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018

A cynical Chicago attorney butts heads with a beautiful killer socialite—from “the Dorothy Parker of detective fiction” (William Ruehlmann). Press agent Jake Justus doesn’t care if all of Chicago drops dead. He’s just tied the knot with debutante Helene Brand, and a Bermuda honeymoon...
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by Brett Halliday
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015

The honeymoon is over—and it’s time for Mike Shayne to prepare for Miami’s killing season For years, Mike Shayne has tangled with the toughest crooks the country has to offer, outsmarting some and outpunching the rest. He was good at his job, but he had no one to come home to—until...
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by Michael Kowal
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017

A mother walks into John Devin, PI’s office with one request - clear her son of a murder he didn’t commit, before he’s executed, the next day. Right. And the murder? Only Liliana McGann, the biggest starlet in Hollywood. Used by everyone who could get a piece of her until someone was finally...
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Yucatán Is Murder

A Ben Candidi Mystery

by Dirk Wyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015

Yucatán Is Murder, sixth in the Ben Candidi Mystery series, is a hard-boiled science-driven mystery-thriller set in Mexico and featuring science- and tech-savvy amateur sleuths. In the coastal scrubland of Yucatán, Mexico, circling vultures lead vacationing scientist, Ben Candidi, to a corpse....
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The Ivory Ring

The Jack Stories, #3

by W.H. Lock
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017

Sometimes even the villains need help.  When the son of a long retired supervillain comes to Jack for help, Jack takes the case. The kid is being blackmailed over an affair with the wife of one of the world's most powerful superheroes. But when the kid turns up dead and Jack has been framed...
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by Laurent Guillaume
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015

A man torn between two continents finds himself in a dangerous confrontation between tradition and corruption. Solo is a former cop who ran away from a dark past in France to start his life over again in Bamako, Mali, as a PI. An ordinary case turns out to be not so ordinary. The drug mule gets her throat...
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by ED LIN
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012

This Is a Bust, the second novel by award-winning author Ed Lin, turns the conventions of hard-boiled pulp stories on their head by exploring the unexotic and very real complexities of New York City's Chinatown, circa 1976, through the eyes of a Chinese-American cop. A Vietnam vet and an alcoholic,...
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The TekWar Series Books 4–6

Tek Vengeance, Tek Secret, and Tek Power

by William Shatner
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018

Books four through six of the bestselling, hard-boiled, science fiction detective series by the legendary actor who played Captain Kirk on Star Trek. It’s the twenty-second century, and mankind has expanded the horizons of science and technology. For those who want to go even further, Tek...
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The High Window

A Novel

by Raymond Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2002

Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's third novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times). A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune—the elements don't...
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Law Can Be Murder

Three Sam McRae Mysteries

by Debbi Mack
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014

THREE HARD-BOILED PAGE TURNERS IN ONE EBOOK! These novels will appeal to all fans of tough-talking female sleuths. Picture Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone if she'd gone to law school. If you enjoy characters like V.I Warshawski, Philip Marlowe, or Elvis Cole, you'll love Sam McRae. “Debbi...
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The Jack Leightner Crime Novels

Red Hook, The Graving Dock, Neptune Avenue, and The Ninth Step

by Gabriel Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018

Four hard-boiled mysteries follow a homicide detective through the grit and grime of Brooklyn’s criminal dark side, from an Edgar Award–nominated author. As a member of the elite Brooklyn South Homicide Task Force, Det. Jack Leightner never shies away from a case, no matter how dangerous...
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by Rob Hart
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015

Nominated for the Anthony Award for Best First Novel Ash McKenna is a blunt instrument. Find someone, scare someone, carry something; point him at the job, he gets it done. He generally accepts money upon completion, though a bottle of whiskey works, too--he's comfortable working on a barter...
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