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Carter Brown's Where Did Charity Go?Carter Brown's Where Did Charity Go? is a 1970 entry in his Rick Holman Hollywood PI series. A movie star has mislaid his daughter. Rick has...
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Dan J. Marlowe’s The Vengeance ManDan J. Marlowe’s The Vengeance Man , published in 1966. A guy has a plan to murder his wife in front of witnesses and get away with it. Slightly...
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The Man with the Getaway FaceThe Man with the Getaway Face , from 1963, was the second Parker novel by Donald E. Westlake (writing as Richard Stark). Hardboiled crime...
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Peter Rabe’s The BoxPeter Rabe’s The Box is a 1962 hardboiled crime novel with a tropical setting and a dash of noir. It begins with a man in a packing crate. He’s...
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Don Tracy’s Criss-CrossDon Tracy’s Criss-Cross was published in 1934 and was one of the first true noir novels. A dumb washed-up boxer gets mixed up in an armoured car...
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G.G. Fickling's A Gun for HoneyA Gun for Honey was published in 1958. Big-breasted hardboiled girl private eye Honey West (who packs a rod and never wears a bra) is after a...
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Fletcher Flora's Let Me Kill You, SweetheartFletcher Flora's Let Me Kill You, Sweetheart was written in 1958. Three men have sex with a young woman. One of them murders her. They all have...
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Carter Brown's The Savage SalomeThe Savage Salome is a 1961 Carter Brown thriller featuring hip PI Danny Boyd. Danny is hired by an opera singer to find her dog's murderer. He...
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Edgar Wallace's The India-Rubber MenThe India-Rubber Men is a 1929 Edgar Wallace thriller. London is hit by daring robberies carried out by men in rubber gas masks, armed with gas...
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Elliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My AngelElliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My Angel is a 1953 novel. Tim plans a big heist but gets mixed up in a complex tumultuous relationship with a...
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James O. Causey's FrenzyJames O. Causey's Frenzy (1960) features noir fiction's most vicious treacherous conscienceless amoral protagonist. He plans to con a big...
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Calvin Clements' Satan Takes the HelmCalvin Clements' 1954 novel Satan Takes the Helm has a nautical setting. A freighter captain is drawn into an intrigue with the owner's very...
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Eugene Thomas’s Bait for MenEugene Thomas’s Bait for Men , short stories from the 1930s about Vivian Legrand, The Lady From Hell. She's a thief, a blackmailer, a murderess,...
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Fredric Brown’s The Far CryFredric Brown’s The Far Cry was published in 1951. A man is digging up evidence on a Lonely Hearts murder eight years earlier. A psychological...
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Orrie Hitt's Dial ‘M’ for ManDial ‘M’ for Man is an excellent 1962 Orrie Hitt novel. He's usually described as a writer of sleaze fiction but mostly his books are noir...
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Clifton Adams' Death’s Sweet SongDeath’s Sweet Song (1955), one of a handful of noir novels written byClifton Adams. A loser running a fleabag motel thinks his big chance has...
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Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a TrainStrangers on a Train (1950) was Patricia Highsmith’s first novel. I love Hitchcock’s 1951 film (which departs radically from the book) but I...
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The Girl with the Long Green HeartLawrence Block’s 1965 crime novel The Girl with the Long Green Heart is about a con and I’m inordinately fond of that crime sub-genre. Block...
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Donald E. Westlake's Point Blank (AKA The Hunter)The Hunter (AKA Point Blank , 1962), the first hardboiled novel featuring his anti-hero Parker written by Donald E. Westlake as Richard Stark....
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Kiss for a KillerKiss for a Killer , a 1960 Honey West PI novel by Gloria and Forest Fickling (as G.G. Fickling). Honey investigates a nudist religious cult....
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W.R. Burnett's The Asphalt JungleW.R. Burnett's 1949 noir novel The Asphalt Jungle . The story of a heist but mostly the story of the men carrying out the heist. The...
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Men’s Adventure Quarterly issue 6Issue 6 of Men’s Adventure Quarterly focuses on heists and includes a fine collection of stories from 1960s/70s men's adventure mags. Plus a...
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Peter Marsh’s The Devil’s DaughterPeter Marsh’s The Devil’s Daughter , published 1942. Unconventional noir with a femme fatale who doesn't fit the usual mould. A story of love and...
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Walter Untermeyer Jr's Dark the Summer DiesWalter Untermeyer Jr’s 1953 novel Dark the Summer Dies is noir melodrama rather than crime noir. It takes a long while for the real noirness to...
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Edgar Wallace's The Green RibbonThe Green Ribbon is a 1929 Edgar Wallace thriller involving an ingenious horse-racing racket with a large and varied collection of villains. And...
