A Drop of the Hard Stuff

7 best books like A Drop of the Hard Stuff (Lawrence Block): What's The Worst That Could Happen?, Spies of the Balkans, The Vanished, Nobody's Perfect, Dancing Bear, Land of Wolves, The Eleventh Plague

What's The Worst That Could Happen?
AuthorDonald E. Westlake
ISBN0446604712
Dortmunder is in the midst of a routine burglary of a Long Island mansion when who shows up toting a gun but the owner, nasty billionaire Max Fairbanks. Worse, Fairbanks takes Dortmunder's supposedly lucky ring. Highly insulted, Dortmunder and his gang execute their own peculiar reign of terror, and...
Spies of the Balkans
AuthorAlan Furst
ISBN1400066034

Greece, 1940. Not sunny vacation Greece: northern Greece, Macedonian Greece, Balkan Greece--the city of Salonika. In that ancient port, with its wharves and warehouses, dark lanes and Turkish mansions, brothels and tavernas, a tense political drama is being played out. On the northern border,...
The Vanished
AuthorBill Pronzini
ISBN0881500224

This second book—like the first—in Pronzini’s Nameless Detective series is not extraordinarily memorable. And yet...there is something about it that makes you respect it and keep on reading, even through the slow spots. I think that is because Pronzini. in every line he writes, shows...
Nobody's Perfect
AuthorDonald E. Westlake
ISBN0445407158
The priceless painting is titled "Folly Leads to Man's Ruin," and its owner, the rich and careless Mr. Chauncey, wants it stolen for the insurance payout. That's why he hires Dortmunder, who has a foolproof plan. Just in case, Chauncey also recruits a hit man to make sure he gets the painting back.Too...
AuthorJames Crumley
Detective Milo Dragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run.

His friends call him Milo. No one has ever called him Bud except his father, long dead, and now Sarah Weddington, stirring painful memoires and offering...
Land of Wolves
AuthorCraig Johnson
ISBN0525522506
The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.

"It's the scenery--and the big guy standing in front of the scenery--that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson's lean and leathery mysteries."
--The New York Times Book Review

Recovering...
The Eleventh Plague
AuthorJohn S. Marr
ISBN0061097632
Two children die of a disease thought to be nonexistent in the United States. Within hours, thoroughbreds at the legendary Churchill Downs are dying of a virus that cannot be identified, even by the most expert veterinarians. Called in to solve these lethal mysteries, noted virologist Jack Bryne discovers...
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