Genre :: Noir (5 books)

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  #128

  The Big Sleep

  by Raymond Chandler

  (7 Reviews)

  152 Points

  "It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills."

  

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  #248

  The Maltese Falcon

  by Dashiell Hammett

  (9 Reviews)

  85 Points

  "Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth."

  

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  #442

  Red Harvest

  by Dashiell Hammett

  (3 Reviews)

  40 Points

  "I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte."

  

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  #595

  L. A. Confidential

  by James Ellroy

  (2 Reviews)

  6 Points

  "An abandoned auto court in the San Berdoo foothills; Buzz Meeks checked in with ninety-four thousand dollars, eighteen pounds of high-grade heroin, a 10-gauge pump, a .38 special, a .45 automatic..."

  

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  #608

  The Postman Always Rings Twice

  by James M. Cain

  (5 Reviews)

  3 Points

  "They threw me off the hay truck about noon."

  

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