Best Hardboiled Detective Fiction

Chandler, Hammett, and their descendants — hard-boiled detectives in the mean streets of America.

Time Crime by H. Beam Piper
Podkayne of Mars by Robert A. Heinlein
That hideous strength by C. S. Lewis
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin
Cat & Mouse by James Patterson
Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants by Dav Pilkey
The story of the Glittering Plain, which has also been called the Land of living men or the Acre of the undying by William Morris
The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov
The High King by Lloyd Alexander
World War Z by Max Brooks

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