Little Caesar
9 best books like Little Caesar (W.R. Burnett): Motherless Brooklyn, Paradise, Red Harvest, The High Window, The Edge of Human, The Benson Murder Case, The House Without a Key, The Roman Hat Mystery, Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever
| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
| ISBN | 0375724834 |
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in the most startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster...
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0452280397 |
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black...
| Author | Dashiell Hammett |
| ISBN | 0752852612 |
I’ll give you three good reasons—from least to most—why you should read Red Harvest: 1) it made possible the fine Leone film A Fistful of Dollars, 2) it inspired the Kurosawa masterpiece Iojimbo which influenced A Fistful of Dollars, and 3) it is an old school hard boiled, hardcore novel,...
| Author | Raymond Chandler |
| ISBN | 0394758269 |
A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune—the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation.
"Raymond Chandler is a star of...
| Author | K.W. Jeter |
| ISBN | 0553762672 |
K.W. Jeter picks up the tale of Rick Deckard, the `blade runner' created by Phillip K. Dick and popularized by Ridley Scott's cult classic film. Consistent with the sordid vision of 21st century Los Angeles crafted by Dick and Scott, Jeter creates a stylish piece of thrilling, futuristic suspense...
| Author | S.S. Van Dine |
| ISBN | 0701206772 |
This novel opens with the death of playboy stockbroker, Alvin Benson, who is found in his brownstone mansion with a bullet through his head. First on the scene is Philo Vance, amateur detective, who is at once intrigued by the absence of Alvin's toupee and his false teeth. These odd clues set him in pursuit...
| Author | Earl Derr Biggers |
| ISBN | 0445402199 |
Charlie Chan is back!
Earl Derr Biggers' crackling six-volume series featuring the clever, chubby Chinese Detective of the Honolulu Police Department, is coming back into print.
Biggers brings Honolulu to life with his deft descriptions of the landscape and its hybrid ethnic...
| Author | Ellery Queen |
| ISBN | 0451084705 |
A fine silk custom top-hat is missing from a crooked lawyer who was poisoned by lead alcohol in the Roman theater at the close of the second act, 9:55 pm. Inspector Richard Q, sneezing snuff; a thin, multi-faced, small "Old Man"; and the Inspector's large writer son Ellery, puffing cigarettes, investigate....
Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever
| Author | Rick Wilson |
| ISBN | 1982103124 |
A respected, long-time Republican strategist, ad-maker, and contributor for The Daily Beast, skewers the disease that is destroying the conservative movement and burning down the GOP: Trumpism.
In Everything Trump Touches Dies, political campaign strategist and commentator Rick Wilson...
