Bullet Proof , by Frank Kane (Dell, 1954), the fourth novel in a series


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THE FOURTEEN In descending order… The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett ( Sam Spade) The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler ( Philip Marlowe) Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler ( Philip Marlowe) Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley ( Easy Rawlins) L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais ( Elvis Cole)


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The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett. What It's About: From "a master of the detective novel [and] one hell of a writer" ( The Boston Globe) comes a coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers. A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics.


Private Eye Magazine (No.56) Fine Soft cover (1964) 1st Edition. The

Books shelved as private-eye: The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith, A Is for Alibi by Sue Grafton, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, B is for Burgla.


PRIVATE DETECTIVE Stories by Various Paperback Magazine 1945

Hardboiled crime novels are realistic and usually feature a tough private eye. The stories are generally set in the United States and the protagonists are usually solitary, with a strong moral code. This list includes some of the most significant hardboiled novels from the twentieth century.


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It laid out exactly the type of man best suited to solve the most noir of crimes: a man both noble and removed from society, possessed of his own sense of justice and able to hold himself above the corruption of society by sheer virtue of his exemplary nature, even as he gives in to his fatal flaws—and boy, would there be fatal flaws a plenty.


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While he lived out his days in a near-catatonic state, the world moved on without him. In 1959, private investigator Harry Angel is hired to track Johnny down by the mysterious Louis Cyphre. Louis has a contract with Johnny that can only be paid upon the singer's death, and he's tired of waiting.


The Complete Private Investigator's Guide Book BlueRose SELF

Showing 1-50 of 101 Sleeping Dog (Kindle Edition) by Dick Lochte (shelved 1 time as private-eye-novel) avg rating 3.78 — 361 ratings — published 1985 Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars A Reader's Guide to the American Novel of Detection (Reader's Guides to Mystery Novels) by Marvin Lachman


2014 Shamus Award from Private Eye Writers of America (With images

Are private eye novels losing their popularity? Is there anything out there living up to the great shamus books of old? For this Top Ten, The Hound, a big fan of Marlowe, Spade and Archer, takes a look at the best of the contemporary US offerings and discovers that the genre is in good hands.


Private Novels Private 1 Suspect (Hardcover)

This book has been written for the middle grade reader who enjoys mysteries, crime fiction and puzzles. Worcester Glendenis is a 12-year-old wannabe private detective. He models himself on his hero, the fictional private eye Philip Marlowe, of course without the booze, cigarettes and violence. After all, he is only twelve.


Midge, Private Eye, Vicky Carroll 9781792070709 Boeken

The 12 best private detectives in crime fiction By crimefictionlover 9 December, 2013 6 Mins read 28 21226 0 Recently, we brought you The PI Case Files, giving you a peek inside the Crime Fiction Lover filing cabinet at some notes we've been compiling on private detectives from across the genre.


Bullet Proof , by Frank Kane (Dell, 1954), the fourth novel in a series

Here are 50 noir books in no particular order that any fan of detective fiction should have on their shelves—and if you're not familiar with the label, any one of these would be the ideal introduction to the genre. The Killer Inside Me. Paperback$16.99. By Jim Thompson Foreword by Stephen King. In Stock Online.


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The conceit of crime writers notwithstanding, very, very few private eyes become involved in investigations of serious crime, and certainly not murder. Estimated reading time: 15 minutes So, it's only natural that a much smaller number of the detective novels I've reviewed feature private investigators.


Princess Private Eye Evelyn Skye, New York Times bestselling author.

Moe Prager by Reed Farrel Coleman. Poetic, brutal, and hard-boiled with a heart, the Moe Prager series is a master's class in P.I. fiction, with a unique and memorable star in Moe, the ex-cop-turned-private eye. Unlike many of his P.I. ancestors, Moe isn't a loner, alcoholic former homicide detective.


The Private Eye (1950) Paperback book covers, Noir detective, Vintage

From The Reader's Guide to the Private Eye Novel by Gary Warren Niebuhr. Compiled by Gary Warren Niebuhr, one of the true experts in the genre and a guy at least as obsessed as I am about all things P.I., The Reader's Guide to the Private Eye Novel (1993), is a whopper of a book, and an absolutely essential reference to the genre.. It offers entries on over a thousand titles by more than.


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Cuts Through Bone by Alaric Hunt: This book is the Winner of the PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Competition - At first, Rachel Vasquez found her new job working for private detective Clayton Guthrie promising. He got her a gun and a license and took her to target practice.


Femme Fatale and The Private Eye ODALISQUE DIGITAL

The Taste of Ashes (1957) I hung up fast, feeling the muscles around my mouth knot into a grin that was no grin at all but a symptom of the same tension that comes when you draw to an open-end.

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