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Hardboiled Fiction Page to Screen
Page to Screen 2024
Shakespeare-inspired Fiction
Swindlers, Con Artists, and Grifters
Page to Screen 2024
Shakespeare-inspired Fiction
Swindlers, Con Artists, and Grifters
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In order to convince his son to come home, Herbert Greenleaf, a rich shipbuilder, sends the suave con man Tom Ripley to Italy, but is unaware of his son's friend's criminal activities.
Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath. Here, in this first Ripley novel, we are introduced to suave Tom Ripley, a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy"...
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Vintage Books
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[1967]
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English
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In the 1920's, the worst place you could be was in that part of Texas that some people call 'South of Heaven', and the worst you could be doing there was lying a gas pipeline, along with 600 other hoboes, juice-heads, and jailbirds.
7) Red harvest
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Detective-story master Dashiell Hammett gives us yet another unforgettable read in Red Harvest.
When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty—even if that meant taking on an entire town.
Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.
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When a ferocious hurricane rips through southern Florida, insurance fraudsters, amateur occultists, and ex-cons waste no time in swarming over the disaster area. And caught in the middle are Max and Bonnie Lamb, honeymooners who abandon their Disney World plans to witness the terrible devastation. But when Max vanishes, Bonnie, aided by a mysterious young man with a tranquilizer gun and a roomful of human skulls, has to follow her only clue: a runaway...
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Vintage Books
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2001.
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English
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A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers. At first merely curious to reconstruct the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery that spans the Balkans.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel comes an explosive novel of the drug trade that takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. The prequel to The Cartel, and set about 10 years earlier, The Power of the Dog introduces a brilliant cast of characters. Art Keller is an obsessive DEA agent. The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire. Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes a high-class...
17) Dexter by design
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Newlywed blood-spatter analyst Dexter Morgan investigates the work of a Miami-area serial killer who has disguised his latest victim as a sunbather on the beach
19) Headhunters
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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Roger Brown is a headhunter and art thief living beyond his means and when he meets Clas Greve, a corporate candidate who reveals that he owns a priceless Rubens painting, Roger breaks into his apartment, initiating a series of events which puts Roger's life in danger.
20) We all fall down
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Vintage Books
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[2012]
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English
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When Chicago is targeted by a brutal biological attack that threatens millions of lives, Michael Kelly begins a desperate search for the perpetrators through the tangled underworld of the city's West Side gangs.
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