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The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James M. Cain
An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.
Year: 1934
Genre: Crime Fiction, Noir Fiction

Double Indemnity
by James M. Cain
Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband. Then she wanted her husband to have an accident. Walter wanted Phyllis. To get her, he would arrange the perfect murder and betray everything he had ever lived for.
Year: 1936
Genre: Noir Fiction

The Drowning Pool
by Ross Macdonald
When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter.
Year: 1950
Genre: Murder Mystery, Private Eye

A Deadly Shade of Gold
by John D. MacDonald
Deception. Betrayal. Heartbreak. When Sam left his girlfriend, Nora, and vanished from Fort Lauderdale, no one was surprised. But when he shows up three years later lying in a pool of his own blood, people start to ask questions. And his old friend Travis McGee is left to find answers.
Year: 1965
Genre: Private Eye, Stolen Goods

Mind of My Mind
by Octavia E. Butler
Mary is a treacherous experiment. Her creator, an immortal named Doro, has molded the human race for generations, seeking out those with unusual talents like telepathy and breeding them into a new subrace of humans who obey his every command. The result is Mary: a young black woman living on the rough outskirts of Los Angeles in the 1970s, who has no idea how much power she will soon wield.
Year: 1977
Genre: Genetic Engineering, Telepathy
Titles
Year | Title | ||||||||||
1934 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | by James M. Cain | |||||||||
1936 | Double Indemnity | by James M. Cain | |||||||||
1950 | The Drowning Pool | by Ross Macdonald | |||||||||
1965 | A Deadly Shade of Gold | by John D. MacDonald | |||||||||
1977 | Mind of My Mind | by Octavia E. Butler | |||||||||
1984 | Dr. Adder | by K.W. Jeter | |||||||||
1984 | The Digging Leviathan | by James P. Blaylock | |||||||||
1985 | Fletch Won | by Gregory Mcdonald | |||||||||
1987 | The Black Dahlia | by James Ellroy | |||||||||
1988 | The Big Nowhere | by James Ellroy | |||||||||
1990 | L.A. Confidential | by James Ellroy | |||||||||
1992 | White Jazz | by James Ellroy | |||||||||
1993 | Free Fall | by Robert Crais | |||||||||
1993 | Parable of the Sower | by Octavia E. Butler | |||||||||
1995 | Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human | by K.W. Jeter | |||||||||
1996 | Expiration Date | by Tim Powers | |||||||||
1997 | Earthquake Weather | by Tim Powers | |||||||||
2018 | Alternate Routes | by Tim Powers | |||||||||
2018 | The Feral Detective | by Jonathan Lethem | |||||||||
2020 | Forced Perspectives | by Tim Powers |