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Hardboiled Detective

aka Noir or Neo-Noir Mysteries

Mysteries featuring a private eye who is "often short on morals but long on integrity," i.e. Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon, and a noir or neo-noir background.

Authors & Titles

Abbott, Megan: The Song is You
Abramo, J.L.: Jake Diamond series
1. Catching Water in a Net
2. Clutching at Straws
3. Counting to Infinity
Akashic Noir series: see Noir (Akashic) series, below
Allison, Glen C.: Al Forte series
1. Miscue
2. Netblue
Atkins, Leo: Connor Gibbs series
1. Deadbeat
2. Play Dead
3. Dead Run
Atwood, Russell: East of A
Austin, Raymond: Beauford Sloan series
1. The Eagle Heist
Bailey, Robert: Art Hardin series
1. Private Heat
2. Dying Embers
Baker, Lise S.: The Loser's Club
Baltimore Noir (edited by Laura Lippman)
Barnes, Linda: Carlotta Carlyle series
1. A Trouble of Fools
2. The Snake Taboo
3. Coyote
4. Steel Guitar
5. Snapshot
6. Hardware
7. Cold Case
8. Flashpoint
9. The Big Dig
10. Deep Pockets
11. Heart of the World
12. Lie Down with the Devil
Barnes, Linda: Michael Spraggue III series
1. Blood Will Have Blood
2. Bitter Finish
3. Dead Heat
4. Cities of the Dead
Benoit, Charles: Noble Lies
Bergman, Andrew: Jack LeVine series
1. Hollywood and LeVine
2. The Big Kiss-Off of 1944
3. Tender is LeVine
Berkowitz, Ira: Jackson Steeg series
1. Family Matters
2. Old Flame
3. Sinner's Ball
Birtcher, Baron R.: Roadhouse Blues
The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (edited by Otto Penzler)
Black, Michael A.: Ron Shade series
1. A Killing Frost
2. Windy City Knights
3. A Final Judgment
4. Dead Ringer (with Julie Hyzy)
  (NOTE: Dead Ringer also features Hyzy's Alex St. James, whose series is listed under Cozy Mysteries)
Block, Lawrence: Matthew Scudder series
1. The Sins of the Fathers
2. Time to Murder and Create
3. In the Midst of Death
4. A Stab in the Dark
5. Eight Million Ways to Die
6. When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
7. Out on the Cutting Edge
8. A Ticket to the Boneyard
9. A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
10. A Walk Among the Tombstones
11. The Devil Knows You're Dead
12. A Long Line of Dead Men
13. Even the Wicked
14. Everybody Dies
15. Hope To Die
16. All the Flowers Are Dying
17. A Drop of the Hard Stuff
  (short stories) Nine Matthew Scudder short stories appear in Enough Rope
  (short story) A Matthew Scudder short story appears in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty years of Crime and Suspense (edited by Linda Landrigan)
Bogart, Stephen Humphrey: The Remake: As Time Goes By
Boyle, Gerry: Jack McMorrow series
1. Deadline
2. Bloodline
3. Lifeline
4. Potshot
5. Borderline
6. Cover Story
7. Pretty Dead
8. Home Body
Brewer, Steve: Bubba Mabry series
1. Lonely Street
2. Baby Face
3. Witchy Woman
4. Shaky Ground
5. Dirty Pool
6. Crazy Love
Brod, D.C.: Quint McCauley series
1. Murder in Store
2. Error in Judgment
3. Masquerade in Blue
4. Brothers in Blood
5. Paid in Full
Bronx Noir (edited by S.J. Rozan)
Brooklyn Noir (edited by Tim McLoughlin)
Brooklyn Noir 2 (edited by Tim McLoughlin)
Bruen, Ken: Brant series
1. The White Trilogy
2. Blitz
3. Vixen
4. Calibre
5. Ammunition
Bruen, Ken & Starr, Jason: Bust
Cain, James M.: Cain X 3 (includes Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, & The Postman Always Rings Twice)
Cain, James M.: Double Indemnity
Cain, James M.: Mildred Pierce
Cain, James M.: The Postman Always Rings Twice
Chabon, Michael: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Chandler, Raymond: Philip Marlowe series
1. The Big Sleep
2. Farewell, My Lovely
3. The High Window
4. The Lady in the Lake
5. The Little Sister
6. The Long Goodbye
7. Playback
  (short stories) Trouble is My Business
  (short stories) The Simple Art of Murder
  By Robert B. Parker:
8. Poodle Springs (unfinished Chandler book completed by Parker)
9. Trouble in Paradise (unfinished Chandler book completed by Parker)
10. Perchance to Dream (Parker's "sequel to The Big Sleep")
Chandler, Raymond: The Simple Art of Murder
Chang, Leonard: Allen Choice series
1. Over the Shoulder
2. Underkill
3. Fade to Clear
Charyn, Jerome: Hurricane Lady
Chicago Noir (edited by Neal Pollack)
Child, Lee: Jack Reacher series
1. Killing Floor
2. Die Trying
3. Tripwire
4. Running Blind
5. Echo Burning
6. Without Fail
7. Persuader
8. The Enemy
9. One Shot
10. The Hard Way
11. Bad Luck and Trouble
12. Nothing to Lose
13. Gone Tomorrow
14. 61 Hours
15. Worth Dying For
16. The Affair
Church, James: Inspector O series
1. A Corpse in the Koryo
2. Hidden Moon
3. Bamboo and Blood
Clare, Baxter: Bleeding Out
Clark, Carol Higgins: Regan Reilly series
1. Decked
2. Snagged
3. Iced
4. Twanged
5. Fleeced
6. Jinxed
7. Popped
8. Burned
9. Hitched
10. Laced
11. Zapped
12. Cursed
13. Wrecked
Clark, Jack: Westerfield's Chain
Cobb, James H.: West on 66
Coffey, Tom: Blood Alley
Coleman, Reed Farrel: Moe Prager series
1. Walking the Perfect Square
2. Redemption Street
3. The James Deans
4. Soul Patch
5. Empty Ever After
Collins, Max Allan: Nathan Heller series (Listed in order of publication)
1. True Detective
2. True Crime
3. The Million-Dollar Wound
4. Neon Mirage
5. Stolen Away
6. Carnal Hours
7. Blood and Thunder
8. Damned in Paradise
9. Flying Blind
10. Majic Man
11. Angel in Black
12. Chicago Confidential
13. Bye Bye, Baby
  (short stories) Dying in the Postwar World
  (short stories) Kisses of Death
Connelly, Michael: Harry Bosch series
1. The Black Echo
2. The Black Ice
3. The Concrete Blonde
4. The Last Coyote
5. Trunk Music
6. Angels Flight
7. A Darkness More Than Night
8. City of Bones
9. Lost Light
10. The Narrows
  (NOTE: The Narrows is also part of Connelly's Rachel Walling series, listed under Psycho-Killer Thrillers)
11. The Closers
12. Echo Park
13. The Overlook
14. The Brass Verdict
15. Nine Dragons
  A Harry Bosch short story appears in The Blue Religion: New Stories About Cops, Criminals, and the Chase (edited by Michael Connelly)
Connolly, John: Charlie Parker series
1. Every Dead Thing
2. Dark Hollow
3. The Killing Kind
4. The White Road
  (cameo) Bad Men
5. The Black Angel
6. The Unquiet
7. The Reapers
8. The Lovers
9. The Whisperers
10. The Burning Soul
Cosin, Elizabeth M.: Zen Moses series
1. Zen and the Art of Murder
2. Zen and the City of Angels
Crais, Robert: Elvis Cole & Joe Pike series
1. The Monkey's Raincoat
2. Stalking the Angel
3. Lullaby Town
4. Free Fall
5. Voodoo River
6. Indigo Slam
7. L.A. Requiem
8. The Last Detective
9. The Forgotten Man
10. The Watchman
11. The First Rule
Crumley, James: C.W. Sughrue series
1. The Last Good Kiss
2. The Mexican Tree Duck
3. Bordersnakes
4. The Right Madness
Crumley, James: Milo Milodragovitch series
1. The Wrong Case
2. Dancing Bear
3. Bordersnakes
4. The Final Country
Daley, Robert: Pictures
Daniel, David: Alex Rasmussen series
1. The Heaven Stone
2. The Skelly Man
3. Goofy Foot
D.C. Noir (edited by George Pelecanos)
Delhi Noir (edited by Hirsh Sawhney)
Detroit Noir (edited by E.J. Olsen & John C. Hocking)
Dodge, David: The Last Match
Dodge, David: To Catch a Thief
Dold, Gaylord: Mitch Roberts series
1. Hot Summer, Cold Murder
2. Snake Eyes
3. Cold Cash
4. Bonepile
5. Muscle and Blood
6. Disheveled City
7. A Penny for the Old Guy
8. Rude Boys
9. The World Beat
10. Samedi's Knapsack
Donaldson, Stephen R.: Brew & Ginny series
(NOTE: Donaldson wrote the first three books under the pseudonym Reed Stephens. The series is currently being re-released under his real name.)
1. The Man Who Killed His Brother - Donaldson
2. The Man Who Risked His Partner - Stephens
3. The Man Who Tried to Get Away - Stephens
4. The Man Who Fought Alone - Donaldson
Doolittle, Sean: Rain Dogs
Dublin Noir (edited by Ken Bruen)
Dundee, Wayne D.: Joe Hannibal series
1. Burning Season
2. The Skintight Shroud
3. The Brutal Ballet
4. And Flesh and Blood So Cheap
5. The Fight in the Dog
Eidson, Bill: Jack Merchant & Sarah Ballard series
1. The Repo
Ellroy, James: Because the Night
Estleman, Loren D.: Amos Walker series
1. Motor City Blue
2. Angel Eyes
3. The Midnight Man
4. The Glass Highway
5. Sugartown
6. Every Brilliant Eye
7. Lady Yesterday
8. Downriver
9. Silent Thunder
10. Sweet Women Lie
11. Never Street
12. The Witchfinder
13. The Hours of the Virgin
14. A Smile on the Face of the Tiger
15. Sinister Heights
16. Poison Blonde
17. Retro
18. Nicotine Kiss
Fackler, Elizabeth: Patricide
Fate, Robert: Baby Shark series
1. Baby Shark
2. Baby Shark's Beaumont Blues
3. Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption
4. Baby Shark's Jugglers at the Border
Faust, Ron: Sea of Bones
Ferrigno, Robert: Heartbreaker
Ford, G.M.: Frank Corso series
1. Fury
2. Black River
3. A Blind Eye
4. Red Tide
Ford, G.M.: Leo Waterman series
1. Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca?
2. Cast in Stone
3. The Bum's Rush
4. Slow Burn
5. Last Ditch
6. The Deader the Better
Fusilli, Jim: Terry Orr series
1. Closing Time
2. A Well-Known Secret
3. Tribeca Blues
4. Hard, Hard City
Goldberg, Lee: Harvey Mapes series
1. The Man With the Iron-On Badge
Gorman, Ed: Jack Dwyer series
1. Rough Cut
2. New, Improved Murder
3. Murder Straight Up
4. Murder in the Wings
5. The Autumn Dead
6. A Cry of Shadows
Gorman, Ed: Robert Payne series
1. Blood Moon
2. Hawk Moon
3. Harlot's Moon
4. Voodoo Moon
Grafton, Sue: Kinsey Millhone series:
1. A is for Alibi
2. B is for Burglar
3. C is for Corpse
4. D is for Deadbeat
5. E is for Evidence
6. F is for Fugitive
7. G is for Gumshoe
8. H is for Homicide
9. I is for Innocent
10. J is for Judgment
11. K is for Killer
12. L is for Lawless
13. M is for Malice
14. N is for Noose
15. O is for Outlaw
16. P is for Peril
17. Q is for Quarry
18. R is for Ricochet
19. S is for Silence
20. T is for Trespass
21. U is for Undertow
22. V is for Vengeance
Gran, Sara: Dope
Grand, David: The Disappearing Body
Greenleaf, Stephen: John Marshall Tanner series
1. Grave Error
2. Death Bed
3. State's Evidence
4. Fatal Obsession
5. Beyond Blame
6. Toll Call
7. Book Case
8. Blood Type
9. Southern Cross
10. False Conception
11. Flesh Wounds
12. Past Tense
13. Strawberry Sunday
14. Ellipsis
Greer, Robert: CJ Floyd series
1. The Devil's Hatband
2. The Devil's Red Nickel
3. The Devil's Backbone
4. Resurrecting Langston Blue
5. The Fourth Perspective
6. The Mongoose Deception
7. Blackbird, Farewell
Haiblum, Isidore: Weiss & Weiss series
1. New York Confidential
Hamilton, Donald: Night Walker
Hamilton, Steve: Night Work
Hammett, Dashiell: The Big Knockover
Hammett, Dashiell: Continental Op series
1. Red Harvest
2. The Dain Curse
3. Blood Money
  (short stories) The Continental Op
  (short stories) The Return of the Continental Op
Hammett, Dashiell: The Glass Key
Hammett, Dashiell: Sam Spade series
1. Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon (by Joe Gores)
2. The Maltese Falcon
  (short stories) The Adventures of Sam Spade
Hammett, Dashiell: The Thin Man
Hammett, Dashiell: Woman in the Dark
Hardboiled Brooklyn (edited by Reed Farrel Coleman)
Harper, Philip: George Gray series
1. Payback
2. Final Fear
3. Death Benefit
Harrison, Colin: Manhattan Nocturne
Harvey, John: Charlie Resnick series
1. Lonely Hearts
2. Rough Treatment
3. Cutting Edge
4. Off Minor
5. Wasted Years
6. Cold Light
7. Living Proof
8. Easy Meat
9. Still Waters
10. Last Rites
11. Cold in Hand
  (short stories)Now's the Time
  (related title) Ash and Bone
  (NOTE: Charlie Resnick plays a supporting role. This title is part of the Frank Elder series, listed under British Mysteries)
Harwood, Seth: Jack Palms series
1. Jack Wakes Up
Havana Noir (edited by Achy Obejas)
Hawke, Richard: Fitz Malone series
1. Speak of the Devil
2. Cold Day in Hell
Haywood, Gar Anthony: Aaron Gunner series
1. You Can Die Trying
2. Not Long for This World
3. Fear of the Dark
4. It's Not a Pretty Sight
5. When Last Seen Alive
6. All the Lucky Ones Are Dead
  (short stories) Lyrics for the Blues
Healy, Jeremiah: John Francis Cuddy series
1. Blunt Darts
2. The Staked Goat
3. So Like Sleep
4. Swan Dive
5. Yesterday's News
6. Right to Die
7. Shallow Graves
8. Foursome
9. Act of God
10. Rescue
11. Invasion of Privacy
12. The Only Good Lawyer
13. Spiral
Heffernan, William: A Time Gone By
Hegwood, Martin: Big Easy Backroad
A Hell of a Woman (edited by Megan Abbott)
Hoar, Jere: The Hit
Hopkins, Roland: Jonathan Dark series
1. Snowball in Hell . . .
Housewright, David: Holland Taylor series
1. Penance
2. Practice to Deceive
3. Dearly Departed
Housewright, David: Rushmore "Mac" McKenzie series
1. A Hard Ticket Home
2. Tin City
3. Pretty Girl Gone
4. Dead Boyfriends
5. Madman on a Drum
6. Jelly's Gold
Hunsicker, Harry: Lee Henry Oswald series
1. Still River
2. The Next Time You Die
Hunt, James Patrick: Maitland series
1. Maitland
2. Maitland Under Siege
Huston, Charlie: Hank Thompson series
1. Caught Stealing
2. Six Bad Things
3. A Dangerous Man
James, Russell: Oh No, Not My Baby
Johansen, Roy: The Answer Man
Jones, Matthew F.: Boot Tracks
Kaminsky, Stuart: Abe Lieberman series
1. Lieberman's Folly
2. Lieberman's Choice
3. Lieberman's Day
4. Lieberman's Thief
5. Lieberman's Law
6. The Big Silence
7. Not Quite Kosher
8. The Last Dark Place
9. Terror Town
10. The Dead Don't Lie
Kaminsky, Stuart M.: Lew Fonesca series
1. Vengeance
2. Retribution
3. Midnight Pass
4. Denial
5. Always Say Goodbye
6. Bright Futures
Kaufman, Thomas: Willis Gidney series
1. Drink the Tea
2. Steal the Show
Kellerman, Jonathan: True Detectives
Kelly, Jack: Line of Sight
Kelly, Jack: Mobtown
Klavan, Andrew: Scott Wiess & Jim Bishop series
1. Dynamite Road
2. Shotgun Alley
3. Damnation Street
Knief, Charles: John Caine series
1. Diamond Head
2. Sand Dollars
3. Emerald Flash
4. Silver Sword
Konrath, J.A.: Jack Daniels series
1. Whiskey Sour
2. Bloody Mary
3. Rusty Nail
4. Dirty Martini
5. Fuzzy Navel
6. Cherry Bomb
  (short stories) Four Pack of Jack
  (short story) A Jack Daniels short story appears in Chicago Blues (edited by Libby Fischer Hellmann)
Koryta, Michael: Lincoln Perry series
1. Tonight I Said Goodbye
2. Sorrow's Anthem
3. A Welcome Grave
4. The Silent Hour
Kuhlken, Ken: Hickey Family series
1. The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles
2. The Loud Adios
3. The Venus Deal
4. The Angel Gang
5. The Do-Re-Mi
6. Vagabond Virgins
La Plante, Linda: Lorraine Page series
1. Cold Shoulder
2. Cold Blood
3. Cold Heart
Lange, Richard: This Wicked World
Las Vegas Noir (Akhasic) (edited by Jarret Keene and Todd James Pierce)
Lee, Wendi: Angela Matelli series
1. The Good Daughter
2. Missing Eden
3. Deadbeat
4. He Who Dies
Leonard, Elmore: The Big Bounce
Lescroart, John: Wyatt Hunt series
1. The Hunt Club
2. The Suspect
3. Treasure Hunt
London Noir (Akashic) (edited by Cathi Unsworth)
London Noir (Capital Crime) (edited by Maxim Jakubowski)
Lovisi, Gary: Blood in Brooklyn
Lynch, Jack: Peter Bragg series
1. Bragg's Hunch
2. The Missing and the Dead
3. Pieces of Death
4. Sausalito
5. San Quentin
6. Monterey
7. Seattle
8. Wolf House
Lynskey, Ed: Frank Johnson series
1. The Dirt-Brown Debry
2. The Blue Cheer
3. Pelham Fell Here
4. Troglodytes
Lyons, Arthur: Jacob Asch series
1. The Dead Are Discreet
2. All God's Children
3. The Killing Floor
4. Dead Ringer
5. Castles Burning
6. Hard Trade
7. At the Hands of Another
8. Three With a Bullet
9. Fast Fade
10. Other People's Money
11. False Pretenses
MacDonald, John D.: Travis McGee series
1. The Deep Blue Good-By
2. A Purple Place for Dying
3. The Quick Red Fox
4. Nightmare in Pink
5. A Deadly Shade of Gold
6. Bright Orange for the Shroud
7. Darker Than Amber
8. One Fearful Yellow Eye
9. Pale Gray For Guilt
10. The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper
11. The Long Lavender Look
12. A Tan and Sandy Silence
13. Dress Her in Indigo
14. The Scarlet Ruse
15. The Turquoise Lament
16. The Dreadful Lemon Sky
17. The Empty Copper Sea
18. The Green Ripper
19. Free Fall in Crimson
20. Cinnamon Skin
21. The Lonely Silver Rain
MacDonald, Ross: Lew Archer series
1. The Moving Target
2. The Drowning Pool
3. The Way Some People Die
4. The Ivory Grin
5. Find a Victim
6. The Barbarous Coast
7. The Doomsters
8. The Galton Case
9. The Wycherly Woman
10. The Zebra-Striped Hearse
11. The Chill
12. The Far Side of the Dollar
13. Black Money
14. The Instant Enemy
15. The Goodbye Look
16. The Underground Man
17. Sleeping Beauty
18. The Blue Hammer
  (short stories) The Name is Archer
Mahattan Noir (edited by Lawrence Block)
Mazel, Henry F.: Murderously Incorrect
McBain, Ed: The Gutter and the Grave
McClendon, Lise: Dorie Lennox series
- One O'Clock Jump
- Sweet and Lowdown
Meadows, Lee E.: Silent Conspiracy
Millar, Sam: Karl Kane series
1. Bloodstorm
2. The Dark Place
Monroe, Steve: '46, Chicago
Mosley, Walter: Easy Rawlins series
1. Devil in a Blue Dress
2. A Red Death
3. White Butterfly
4. Black Betty
5. A Little Yellow Dog
6. Gone Fishin'
7. Bad Boy Brawly Brown
8. Little Scarlet
9. Blonde Faith
  (short stories) Six Easy Pieces
Mosley, Walter: Fearless Jones series
1. Fearless Jones
2. Fear Itself
3. Fear of the Dark
Mosley, Walter: Leonid McGill series
1. The Long Fall
2. Known to Evil
Nadelson, Reggie: Artie Cohen series
1. Red Hot Blues
2. Hot Poppies
3. Bloody London
4. Disturbed Earth
5. Red Hook
6. Fresh Kills
7. Londongrad
Noir (Akashic) series by various authors