The Baby in the Icebox and Other Short Fiction
10 best books like The Baby in the Icebox and Other Short Fiction (James M. Cain): Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, Sideswipe: A Hoke Moseley Novel, Crime Stories and Other Writings, Fast One, Little Caesar, Women in Bed: Nine Stories, Asunder, The Black Angel, Cassidy's Girl, The Damned
| Author | Horace McCoy |
| ISBN | 1852424338 |
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is a kind of success story. A Phi Beta Kappa scholar succeds in turning himself into a vicious and completely immoral criminal - a man whose contempt for law, order, and human life drives him relentlessly into a career of unrelieved evil. He escapes from a chain gang to join a pack...
| Author | Charles Willeford |
| ISBN | 1400032482 |
Hoke Moseley has had enough. Tired of struggling against alimony payments, two teenage daughters, a very pregnant, very single partner, and a low paying job as a Miami homicide detective, Hoke moves to Singer Island and vows never step foot on the mainland again. But on the street, career criminal Troy...
| Author | Dashiell Hammett |
| ISBN | 1931082006 |
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...
| Author | Paul Cain |
| ISBN | 0887390781 |
First published by Doubleday in 1932 in the depth of the Great Depression, an era whose seamy side it depicts, and only recently rediscovered, 'Fast One' by Paul Cain (one of the mystery men of American literature) explodes into real life with the story of one of the toughest characters ever to emerge...
| Author | W.R. Burnett |
| ISBN | 0948353538 |
Before reading 'Little Caesar', all I knew about this book was the movie version of it in the classic 1931 movie based on the novel:
https://youtu.be/qfcHKhp8YE4
Well, I finally got around to reading ‘Little Caesar’, W. R. Burnett’s classic 1929 novel about the character...
Women in Bed: Nine Stories
| Author | Jessica Keener |
| ISBN | 1611880750 |
Jessica Keener’s extraordinary debut novel, Night Swim captivated readers with its eloquence, insight, and humanity. “This gripping first novel announces the arrival of a strong, distinct and fully evolved new voice,” said Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of A Visit from...
| Author | Chloe Aridjis |
| ISBN | 0544003462 |
Asunder is a rich, resonant novel of beguiling depths and beautiful strangeness, exploring the delicate balance between creation and destruction, control and surrender.
Marie's job as a guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and...
| Author | Cornell Woolrich |
| ISBN | 1933648511 |
Output is not quality, of course, but as Ray Bradbury noted, it produces quality, and Cornell Woolrich was prolific. He also is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. What cinches his place in history is a stretch where he published one great novel of gripping, enduring suspense after...
| Author | David Goodis |
| ISBN | 0887390277 |
They say that a man needs a woman to go to hell with. Cassidy had two. One was Mildred, the wife who kept him chained with ties of fear and jealousy and paralyzing sexual need. The other was Doris, a frail angel with a 100-proof halo and a bottle instead of a harp. With those two, Cassidy found that the ride to...
| Author | John D. MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0709078005 |
Of all the authors that I admire, John D. MacDonald is the one I would have liked to have a meal with most. He had a wisdom about man's motivations that few authors can rival. That wisdom really comes across in this novel.
The situation at the heart of this story is a delayed river crossing. The delay...
| Author | Jim Thompson |
| ISBN | 0316404012 |
War changed Clinton Brown. Permanently disfigured by a tragic military accident, he's struggling to find satisfaction from life as a rewrite man for Pacific City's Courier. Shame has led him to isolate himself from closest friends and even his estranged, still faithfully devoted wife, Ellen. Only...
Irregular Verbs and Other Stories
| Author | Matthew Johnson |
| ISBN | 1771481773 |
Keluarga: to move to a new village. Lunak: to search for something without finding it. Mencintai: to love for the last time.
Meet a guilt-ridden nurse who atones for her sins by joining her zombified patients in exile; a lone soldier standing guard on a desolate Arctic island against an invasion...
| Author | Armitage Trail |
| ISBN | 0747578613 |
"She was the sort of girl that immediately and unconsciously made a young man ambitious for more intimate acquaintance and an old man regretful for his age."
That would've been a fantastic opening for the book, but it came later... It actually opens with Tony, a young nobody, killing a gang leader...
| Author | Dacia Maraini |
| ISBN | 8817664782 |
Una porta spalancata, un paio di scarpe da tennis azzurre appaiate, un acuto odore di disinfettante accolgono, al suo ritorno nella casa romana dopo una breve assenza, la giornalista di una radio privata, Michela Canova. Apparentemente questi segni non sembrano indicare nulla di particolare, in...
