The Burglar
10 best books like The Burglar (David Goodis): The Cellar, Growing Things and Other Stories, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, The Grifters, The Butterfly Girl, New Hope for the Dead, Black Wings Has My Angel, The Woman Chaser, Playback, Pop. 1280
| Author | Richard Laymon |
| ISBN | 0843957484 |
Well! There must be something wrong with me because I really enjoyed reading this twisted story. I thought this was my first Richard Laymon book but when I reached a certain part, I realized I read this book when I was still a teenager and never forgot how disturbing it was but I had no idea it was an R.L. book....
Growing Things and Other Stories
| Author | Paul Tremblay |
| ISBN | 0062679147 |
A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.
A masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things is an exciting...
| 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 | Jim Thompson |
| ISBN | 0316404055 |
To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap hotel just within his pay bracket. He goes to work every day. He has hundreds of friends and associates who could attest to his good character.
Yet, hidden behind...
| Author | Rene Denfeld |
| ISBN | 0062698184 |
After captivating readers in The Child Finder, Naomi—the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children—returns, trading snow-covered woods for dark, gritty streets on the search for her missing sister in a city where young, homeless girls have been going missing and turning...
| Author | Charles Willeford |
| ISBN | 1400032490 |
Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley is called to a posh Miami neighborhood to investigate a lethal overdose. There he meets the alluring stepmother of the decedant, and begins to wonder about dating a witness. Meanwile, he has been threatened with suspension by his ambitious new chief unless he...
| Author | Elliott Chaze |
| ISBN | 1596542136 |
Chaze's long-lost noir classic, a legend among noir buffs, is back in print for the first time in nearly half a century. The one book Black Lizard never published, it's the dream-like tale of a man after a jailbreak, who meets up with the woman of his dreams... and his nightmares. Phenomenal work of the...
| Author | Charles Willeford |
| ISBN | 1842430017 |
”This period of my life should have been a happy one, and suppose it was, in a weird, unrealistic way. Wasn’t I making money hand over fist, as the saying goes? And isn’t the making of money the reason for existence? Isn’t it?”
Richard Hudson believes he is the best used car...
| Author | Raymond Chandler |
| ISBN | 0394757661 |
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7), Raymond Chandler
Playback is a novel by Raymond Chandler, featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe. It was first published in Britain in July 1958; the US edition followed in October that year. Chandler died the following year; Playback is his last completed...
| Author | Jim Thompson |
| ISBN | 0316403784 |
Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest criminals. He knows that nobody in tiny Potts County actually wants to follow the law and he is perfectly content lazing about, eating five meals a day, and sleeping with all the eligible women.
Still,...
The Man With The Getaway Face
4.0 stars. After settling a vendetta against his former crew and starting a big, juicy new one against the entire Outfit in the The Hunter....PARKER (aka Mr. Badass MoFo)....IS …..BACK!! He has a brand new face thanks to some nifty plastic surgery performed by an “off the books” doctor...
Fatal Charm: The Shocking True Story of Serial Wife Killer Randy Roth
| Author | Carlton Smith |
| ISBN | 0451404165 |
The devil in disguise
This is a well-written account of wife-killer Randy Roth who lived and murdered in King County, Washington.
Roth was married four times. His first marriage to Donna Sanchez lasted five years and produced one son. His second marriage to Janis Miranda ended after...
