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The Gutter and the Grave (Hard Case Crime #15)

10 best books like The Gutter and the Grave (Hard Case Crime #15) (Ed McBain): Grifter's Game (Hard Case Crime #1), Money Shot, The Comedy is Finished (Hard Case Crime #105), Little Girl Lost, Cut Me In, 361, Sinner Man, Lemons Never Lie, Killing Castro (Hard Case Crime #51), The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53)

Grifter's Game (Hard Case Crime #1)
AuthorLawrence Block
ISBN0843953497
ALERT: HARD CASE CRIME MAY CAUSE INTENSE, MULTIPLE BOOKGASMS!!

HCC, you saucy, filthy, gorgeous little minx. I’m so glad I found you. After gobbling up book #1, I learned there are...steady...steady...65 MORE OF THESE...which made me...well...


NOIRites, I gotta tell...
Money Shot
AuthorChrista Faust
ISBN0843959584
Ex-porn star and talent agent Angel Dare has been set up, beaten up, and left for dead. Now she's hiding from the law AND the bad guys who want a missing suitcase. What does Angel want? Revenge, and she'll do whatever it takes to get the men who ruined her life.

This was a fun read of the fast and furious...
The Comedy is Finished (Hard Case Crime #105)
AuthorDonald E. Westlake
ISBN0857684086
The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. 

Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and presidents and veteran of countless USO tours to buck up American...
Little Girl Lost
AuthorRichard Aleas
ISBN0843953519
Miranda Sugarman was supposed to be in the Midwest, working as an eye doctor. So how did she wind up shot to death on the roof of New York s seediest strip club? It s up to detective John Blake to uncover his ex-girlfriend s secret life as a striptease queen. But the deeper he digs, the darker the secrets he uncovers,...
Cut Me In
AuthorHunt Collins
*CONTAINS THE BONUS STORY, "NOW DIE IN IT".

WHEN A MAN’S PARTNER IS KILLED
HE’S SUPPOSED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT

Maybe no one liked Del Gilbert a whole lot, not the men he ruthlessly did business with, not the women who discovered they weren’t his only lover, not even his partner...
361
AuthorDonald E. Westlake
ISBN0843953578
The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray Kelly woke up in the hospital, it was a month later, he was missing an eye, and his father was dead. Then things started to get bad.

From the mind of the incomparable Donald E. Westlake - Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster...
Sinner Man
AuthorLawrence Block
ISBN1785650017
LAWRENCE BLOCK’S FIRST CRIME NOVEL—
LOST FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS!

To escape punishment for a murder he didn’t mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another...
Lemons Never Lie
AuthorRichard Stark
ISBN0843955945
Perhaps the first clue that Donald Westlake was planning to close out the world of Richard Stark, the previous Grofield adventures involved him being dropped into someone else’s intrigue against his will; this one could have been a Parker story. It involves a job that is a definite "no" from the beginning,...
Killing Castro (Hard Case Crime #51)
AuthorLee Duncan
ISBN0843961139
Five Americans are hired to go to Cuba and assassinate Fidel Castro, the survivors splitting $100,000. Two of the five join revolutionaries in the hills, two hole up and build a bomb, and the last rents a hotel room overlooking the site of one of Fidel's speeches. Can any of them get the job done?

While...
The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53)
AuthorDonald E. Westlake
ISBN0843961147
Originally published in 1960 as The Mercenaries.

SOME PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY

Mavis St. Paul had been a rich man’s mistress. Now she was a corpse. And every cop in New York City was hunting for the two-bit punk accused of putting a knife in her.

But the punk was innocent....
The Girl with the Long Green Heart (Hard Case Crime, #14)
AuthorLawrence Block
ISBN0843955856
First published in 1965, this is another pulp classic from Lawrence Block, now resurrected by the folks at Hard Case Crime. The main protagonist, Johnny Hayden, is fresh out of the slammer and determined to never go back. He's toiling away at a job in a bowling alley, making peanuts but attempting to save...
A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17)
AuthorCharles Williams
ISBN0843955880
When washed up football player Lee Scarborough gets hired to steal $120,000 from a banker's widow, how can he pass it up? Little does Lee know that other people have their sights set on the money and the widow herself. And Madelon Butler, the widow, is the most deadly of them all...

A Touch of Death...
Songs of Innocence
AuthorRichard Aleas
ISBN0843957735
Little Girl ... Found. — Three years ago, detective John Blake solved a mystery that changed his life forever -- and left a woman he loved dead. Now Blake is back, to investigate the apparent suicide of Dorothy Louise Burke, a beautiful college student with a double life. The secrets Blake uncovers...
The Grifters
AuthorJim Thompson
ISBN0316404055
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...
The Sins of the Fathers
AuthorLawrence Block
ISBN0752834525

They tell me the Matt Scudder series starts slow, that it hits its stride with his fifth adventure, Eight Million Ways to Die. I don't know about that—at least not yet—but one thing I can say for sure: The Sins of the Fathers is plenty good enough.

Scudder was once a cop. But then a seven...
Brothers Keepers
AuthorDonald E. Westlake
ISBN0446401358
A small order of monks have lived on New York’s Park Avenue for almost two centuries. They managed to keep their monastery as the city grew thanks to a ninety-nine year lease, but they’re surprised to learn that the lease is almost up and that their entire block is about to be sold to build a new office...
Quarry's Ex
AuthorMax Allan Collins
ISBN0843963298
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Especially if you’re a hit man and you’ve killed several people while there.

Quarry used to just murder people for money, but he now he works a new angle. Using info he accumulated while in the business, he now tracks other hit men while they’re getting...
The Last Good Guy
AuthorT. Jefferson Parker
ISBN0525537643
In this electrifying new thriller from three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestseller T. Jefferson Parker, Private Investigator Roland Ford hunts for a missing teenager and uncovers a dark conspiracy in his most personal case yet.

When hired by a beautiful and enigmatic woman...
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