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Spenser, the Boston private eye, is hired to find a missing housewife from Cape Cod, and finds her among a group of militant feminists planning a robbery.
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The Thin Man
A retired detective and his wealthy wife drink their way through a Prohibition-era Christmas in New York while he is pulled into the disappearance of an eccentric inventor suspected of murder.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
A small-time criminal in 1970s Boston tries to sell a truckload of stolen guns, and every conversation he has reveals how the underworld really works.
The Given Day
An Irish cop torn between his family and his union and a Black man on the run from Tulsa meet in Boston in 1919, as anarchist bombs go off and the police head towards a strike.
Indemnity Only
V. I. Warshawski, a private investigator in Chicago, is hired by a man calling himself John Thayer to find his son's missing girlfriend, and finds the son shot dead in his apartment instead.
La Brava
Joe LaBrava, a former Secret Service agent turned photographer in Miami Beach, falls for Jean Shaw, a film noir actress he idolised as a boy, and walks into a scam built around her.
Gone, Baby, Gone
A private detective searches for a missing four-year-old girl in a Boston neighbourhood where everyone knows what happened but no one will talk.
The Winter of Frankie Machine
A retired San Diego hitman with a bait shop and a mortgage discovers that someone in the mob he left is trying to have him killed, and has to walk backwards through his career to figure out who.
The Big Sleep
A private detective in 1930s Los Angeles takes a missing-person case that leads through a web of pornography, murder, and the corruption of the California rich.
Down the River Unto the Sea
Joe King Oliver, a New York detective framed and thrown off the force, now a private investigator, gets a letter that sets him looking into his own case and that of a Black journalist on death row.
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
Matt Scudder, a sober ex-cop working as an unlicensed private eye in New York, takes a job looking into a wealthy man suspected of killing his wife, and stumbles onto something worse.
The Maltese Falcon
In 1920s San Francisco, private detective Sam Spade is hired by a beautiful woman whose story is a lie, and after his partner is shot, he is drawn into a hunt for a jewelled falcon statue.
Devil in a Blue Dress
In Los Angeles in 1948, Easy Rawlins, a Black war veteran just fired from his job at an aircraft plant, is hired to find a white woman named Daphne Monet.