Books like 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.
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Red Harvest
A detective arrives in a mining town controlled by warring gangs and plays them against each other, leaving a trail of bodies that adds up to something like justice.
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.
Farewell, My Lovely
A detective searches for a missing ex-con in 1940s L.A. and finds a world of fake identities, wealthy psychopaths, and the city's rotten underside.
Promised Land
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.
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.
To Have and Have Not
Harry Morgan, a charter-boat captain in Key West cheated out of his fee in the Depression, turns to running rum and people across the straits from Cuba to keep his family fed.
Harlem Shuffle
A furniture dealer in 1960s Harlem runs a criminal sideline, and the heist novel becomes a portrait of a neighbourhood navigating the edge of the Civil Rights era.
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.
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.
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.
Briarpatch
Benjamin Dill, a Senate investigator, goes home to his southern city for the funeral of his sister, a homicide detective killed by a car bomb, and starts asking questions.
Silent Joe
Joe Trona, scarred as a baby when his father threw acid in his face, works as a deputy in Orange County and as bodyguard to the county supervisor who adopted him, until the man is shot dead in front of him.