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Title: The Maltese Falcon
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
Date Published: June 1989
Format: Trade Paper
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Sam Spade, a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, stars in Hammett's cooly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted generations of readers.
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Title: L. A. Confidential
Author: James Ellroy
Publisher: Warner Books, Incorporated
Date Published: September 1997
Format: Trade Paper
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Three cops in a spiral, a nightmare that tests loyalty and courage, a nightmare that offers no mercy, allows for no survivors. Here is James Ellroy's masterpiece. . . darkness to haunt you in shades of red, gray, and black.
The first true-crime book published on the strangest of all "unsolved" murders in the annals of modern crime, Severed offers a documented solution endorsed by law enforcement and forensic science experts.
 | Title: The Big Sleep
Author: Raymond Chandler
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Date Published: June 1994
Format: Trade Cloth
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Raymond Chandler's first novel introduces us to Philip Marlowe in a case that involves a paralyzed millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail and murder. "She had the kind of body that would make a bishop kick out a stained-glass window."
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Title: Black Alley
Author: Mickey Spillane
Publisher: NAL/Dutton
Date Published: August 1997
Format: Mass Market Paperbound
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Toughest of the tough guys, private eye Mike Hammer is back in Spillane's latest crime novel that resonates with boys'-night-out boisterousness. The familiar he-man imagery is all in place and bodies pile up at an exuberant rate.
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Title: Pop Goes the Weasel
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Date Published: October 1999
Format: Trade Cloth
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The lives of Alex Cross and his fiancée are imperiled as he pursues a serial killer at large in Washington's diplomatic corps.
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