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10 best books like Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window (Raymond Chandler): Lady Cop Makes Trouble, Complete Novels: Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man, Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit, Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions, By Book or By Crook, Crime Stories and Other Writings, Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s, Land of Wolves, The Tale Teller, The Lying Room

Lady Cop Makes Trouble
AuthorAmy Stewart
ISBN0544409949
After besting (and arresting) a ruthless silk factory owner and his gang of thugs in Girl Waits with Gun, Constance Kopp became one of the nation’s first deputy sheriffs. She's proven that she can’t be deterred, evaded, or outrun. But when the wiles of a German-speaking con man threaten her position...
Complete Novels: Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man
AuthorDashiell Hammett
ISBN1883011671
Complete in one volume, the five books that created the modern American crime novel

In a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel.

The five novels that Hammett published between 1929 and 1934, collected here in one volume,...
Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit
AuthorAmy Stewart
ISBN1328736512
Trailblazing Constance's hard-won job as deputy sheriff is on the line in Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit, the fourth installment of Amy Stewart's Kopp Sisters series.

After a year on the job, New Jersey's first female deputy sheriff has collared criminals, demanded justice for wronged women,...
Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions
AuthorAmy Stewart
The feisty, fiery Kopp sisters are back in another unforgettable romp by international bestseller Amy Stewart.

Deputy sheriff Constance Kopp is outraged to see young women brought into the Hackensack jail over dubious charges of waywardness, incorrigibility, and moral depravity. The...
By Book or By Crook
AuthorEva Gates
Get bound up in murder in the first Lighthouse Library mystery!

For ten years Lucy has enjoyed her job poring over rare tomes of literature for the Harvard Library, but she has not enjoyed the demands of her family’s social whorl or her sort-of-engagement to the staid son of her father’s...
Crime Stories and Other Writings
AuthorDashiell Hammett
ISBN1931082006
In scores of stories written for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett used the vernacular adventure tale to register the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern America. His stories opened up crime fiction to the realities of American streets and American...
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s
AuthorRobert Polito
ISBN1883011493
This Library of America volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing, works now being recognized for the powerful literary qualities and their unique, sometimes subversive role in shaping modern American language and culture.

The...
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 Tale Teller
AuthorAnne Hillerman
ISBN0062391976
Legendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman that combines crime, superstition, and tradition and brings the desert Southwest vividly alive.

Joe Leaphorn may have retired...
The Lying Room
AuthorNicci French
ISBN0062676725
It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morning-after visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him...
David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s & 50s
AuthorDavid Goodis
ISBN1598531484
Among the pantheon of American crime writers—those masters of noir whose powerful vernacular style and dark and subversive themes transformed American culture and writing—David Goodis was a unique figure. Born in Philadelphia, he brought a jazzy, expressionist style and an almost hallucinatory...
Heart Solution for Women: A Proven Program to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
AuthorMark Menolascino
ISBN0062842137
Heart disease remains the number one killer of women, outpacing breast cancer, diabetes, and stroke, with one in four women receiving a diagnosis in her lifetime. And the problem is only getting worse.  

Dr. Mark Menolascino has been on the front lines of cardiac research for most of his life,...
Once Craved
AuthorBlake Pierce
ONCE CRAVED is book #3 in the bestselling Riley Paige mystery series, which begins with ONCE GONE.

When prostitutes turn up dead in Phoenix, not much attention is paid. But when a pattern of disturbing murders is discovered, the local police soon realize a serial killer is on a rampage and they...
Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann
AuthorBarbara Seaman
ISBN0688050107
This was not a proper biography; it was a collection of information and anecdotes about Jacqueline Susann, fabulous authoress of the literary classic Valley of the Dolls.

I read 352 pages (or about 77%) of this book, then tossed it on my bedroom floor amidst the piles of discarded shoes, dried-up...
Voodoo
AuthorJohn Richard Stephens
ISBN1435123735
Voodoo . . . . The very word conjures shadowy and sinister images of black magic and primitive rites and rituals: crudely fashioned dolls stuck with pins, mojos, animal sacrifices, wild dancing to savage drumbeats, venomous snakes, and bones charged with lethal supernatural powers that can make a...
Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables
AuthorAbra Berens
ISBN1452169322
Named a Best Cookbook for Spring 2019 by The New York Times and Bon Appetit

A how-to cook book spanning 29 types of vegetables: Author Abra Berens—chef, farmer, Midwesterner—shares a collection of techniques that result in new flavors, textures, and ways to enjoy all the vegetables you...
Once Taken
AuthorBlake Pierce
Once Taken is book #2 in the bestselling Riley Paige mystery series, which begins with Once Gone.

Women are being murdered in upstate New York, their bodies found mysteriously hanging in chains. With the FBI called in, given the bizarre nature of the murders—and the lack of any clues—there...
Keto Meal Prep by FlavCity: 125+ Low Carb Recipes That Actually Taste Good
AuthorBobby Parrish
#1 Amazon Best Seller! — A Week of Delicious Keto Meals in One Hour of Meal Prep Low-carb, keto recipes that actually taste good: With over 1,000,000 fans, FlavCity is known as the go-to spot for healthy meal prep and keto recipes to help you lose weight. Bobby Parrish has been featured on The Rachael...
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