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Pearls are a Nuisance

10 best books like Pearls are a Nuisance (Raymond Chandler): The Singing Detective, Hammett, Rumpole and the Age of Miracles, Black Butterflies, Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay, The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels, The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics, My Gun Is Quick, Nothing More Than Murder, La rosa di Alessandria

The Singing Detective
AuthorDennis Potter
ISBN0571145906
I remember when this was first shown on television – I remember the effect it had on me. That television could be like that! Here was something that proved television could be something more than mindless drivel. Of course, I was wrong – and The Singing Detective was just the exception that proves...
Hammett
AuthorJoe Gores
ISBN0752851829
From Chinatown's dark alleys to the fog-shrouded Golden Gate, crooked politicians ran San Francisco. To Hammet, retired Pinkerton detective and struggling writer, it was all just grist to his fictional mill. Until the night his pal walked into a baseball bat. Then Hammett hung up his typewriter,...
Rumpole and the Age of Miracles
AuthorJohn Mortimer
Ever bake or cook a lot more of something than you should have just because once you got started you realized how awesome that thing is? I once cooked and ate a pound of bacon by myself. It was awesome and it nearly killed me...but mostly it was awesome.

Rumpole and the Age of Miracles was so enjoyable...
Black Butterflies
AuthorJohn Shirley
ISBN0843948442
finally finished this one; ugh what a chore. it was just sitting on my Unfinished shelf, staring me down, and finally i couldn't take it anymore.

Shirley knows how to construct a story, that can't be denied. he has interesting themes, can set a tone immediately, and his characters are diverse...
Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay
AuthorBilly Wilder
ISBN0520218485
On every level -- writing, direction, acting -- Double Indemnity (1944) is a triumph and stands as one of the greatest achievements in Billy Wilder's career. Adapted from the James M. Cain novel by director Wilder and novelist Raymond Chandler, it tells the story of an insurance salesman, played by...
The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels
AuthorDashiell Hammett
ISBN0679722599
Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover...
The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics
AuthorPaul Gravett
ISBN0762433949
One of the only compilations of the crime comic genre, this volume contains 25 of the best graphic short stories, spanning all the nuances of noir, from classic American newspaper strip serials and notorious uncensored comic books to today’s global graphic novel masterpieces. This collection...
My Gun Is Quick
AuthorMickey Spillane
ISBN0451135520
A toughest roughest American PI Mike Hammer is back in action. By pure accident he met a prostitute who is drop-dead gorgeous like every single woman in the series. She was instantly drawn to him like every single woman in the series. Our PI was moved by her situation and gave her some money hoping she would...
Nothing More Than Murder
AuthorJim Thompson
ISBN0316403938
Joe Wilmot can't stand his wife Elizabeth. But he sure loves her movie theater. It's a modest establishment in a beat-down town--but Joe has the run of the place, and inside its walls, he's king. Without the theater, he'd be sunk. Without his leadership, the theater would close in a heartbeat. If it isn't...
La rosa di Alessandria
AuthorManuel Vázquez Montalbán
ISBN8807814366
L'ennesimo, misterioso delitto in casa Carvalho: Encarnacion, cugina di Charo, l'amante prostituta di Pepe, viene trovata orribilmente squartata a Barcellona... Parallela corre la storia di Ginés Larios, marinaio in fuga da Trinidad sulla nave da carico "La Rosa di Alessandria". I destini dei...
Maigret Has Doubts
AuthorGeorges Simenon
ISBN0380704102
«E se quella sera Maigret aveva iniziato di colpo a parlare era per distogliere l’amico dai suoi pensieri, certo, ma soprattutto perché la telefonata ricevuta da Pardon aveva risvegliato in lui sentimenti non dissimili da quelli che agitavano il dottore. Non era senso di colpa: Maigret, del resto,...
Giudici
AuthorAndrea Camilleri
ISBN8806205978
Il giudice Efisio Surra è catapultato da Torino a Montelusa, e con il suo candore e la sua tenacia vince la prima battaglia dell'Italia unita contro la Fratellanza, non ancora «Maffia».
Un giudice ragazzina si trova di colpo ridotta in clandestinità, nel bel mezzo di una guerra senza esclusione...
Brouillard au pont de Tolbiac (Nestor Burma
AuthorJacques Tardi
Le détective privé parisien Nestor Burma reçoit un courrier d'un vieux copain, Abel Benoit, qui l'informe qu'"un salaud mijote des saloperies". Intrigué, il se rend au rendez-vous et apprend que Benoit est mort, des suites d'une mystérieuse agression. Abel Benoit, c'est toute la jeunesse...
I ragazzi del massacro
AuthorGiorgio Scerbanenco
ISBN8811669561
Un'aula scolastica, una lavagna piena di parolacce e disegni osceni e il cadavere di una giovane donna completamente nuda, orrendamente massacrata di botte, i suoi abiti sparsi dappertutto. La vittima è Matilde Crescenzaghi, fragile e delicata signorina della piccola borghesia dell'Alta Italia,"insegnante...
Angel Eyes
AuthorLoren D. Estleman
ISBN0395315581
Book # 2 in the Amos Walker P.I. series. He is hired by a stripper with incredibly beautiful eyes, who fears for her life. She immediately disappears, having left Amos with a pedigree diamond ring. Walker tracks the ring to a union boss with a shady past, and a wealthy lawyer, who disappeared in a plane crash,...
I delitti di via Medina-Sidonia
AuthorSanto Piazzese
ISBN8838912343
«I sani, buoni, misteriosi delitti, che gli mancano tanto; quelli che rendono vivibili tutti i paesi civili di questo mondo. Quelli con un bel movente, quelli da scavarci dentro, come Maigret, come Marlowe, o - più realisticamente - come don Ciccio Ingravallo, per arrivare alla fine ai meccanismi...
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