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The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon
by Joe Gores
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by Jess Walter
Published Sep 2021
Read ReviewsThe author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins delivers another "literary miracle" (NPR) - a propulsive, richly entertaining novel about two adventure-seeking brothers, the enemies who threaten them, and the women who reveal to them an unjust world on the brink of upheaval.
by Kelli Stanley
Published Aug 2011
Read ReviewsSan Francisco's Chinatown, 1940: Miranda Corbie, a private investigator, stumbles upon the fatally shot body of Eddie Takahashi. The Chamber of Commerce wants it covered up. The cops acquiesce. But Miranda wants justice - whatever it costs.
by Walter Mosley
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsEasy Rawlins returns to solve a mystery set amid the devastating Los Angeles riots of 1965.
by Walter Mosley
Published Jun 2002
Read ReviewsWalter Mosley, "one of crime fiction's brightest stars," returns to mysteries at last! Fearless Jones is a dazzling new thriller, set in 1950s L.A. and featuring the most engaging hero since Easy Rawlins.
by James Ellroy
Published Jun 2002
Read ReviewsHis most ambitious and explosive novel yet, Ellroy puts the whole of the 1960s under his blistering lens. The result is a work of fierce, epic fiction, a speedball through our most tumultuous time.
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