Ed Lynskeys Favorite Hardboiled Crime Fiction Novels

Discover Ed Lynskey's top picks for hardboiled crime fiction novels. Explore a curated list of gritty, suspenseful reads that define the genre's best.

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Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels (LOA #110)

by Dashiell Hammett

Presents five novels by Dashiell Hamilton, all published between 1929 and 1934.
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The Lady in the Lake

by Raymond Chandler

Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's fourth novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times). In The Lady in the Lake, hardboiled …
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Deadly Beloved

by Max Allan Collins

Female private eye Ms. Michael Tree takes on a case that looks open and shut, but may have ties to the murder of her husband. …
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Queenpin

by Megan Abbott

By the author of Dare Me and The End of Everything A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken …
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The Wake-Up

by Robert Ferrigno

When Frank Thorpe, a deeply moral former undercover operative, sees a hard-charging art dealer knock down a Latino child in LAX airport, he decides to …
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L.A. Outlaws

by T. Jefferson Parker

Investigating the latest crime scene of a celebrity thief who has been staging lucrative heists and donating the spoils to charity, rookie deputy Charlie Hood …
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First Blood

by David Morrell

A mentally unstable Vietnam vet has a one-man war with the police force of a small town after they abuse him. Includes a never-before-seen alternate …
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