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24 titles for readers of Cut Thin to Win by Erle Stanley Gardner, selected for shared themes: Hard-Boiled, Traditional, Crime, and Mystery & Detective.

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Kept Women Can’t Quit — Erle Stanley Gardner

Kept Women Can’t Quit

Erle Stanley Gardner

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

The Murder on the Links — Agatha Christie

The Murder on the Links

Agatha Christie

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

The Mercy Seat — Martyn Waites

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

Standing by the Wall A Slough House Interlude — Mick Herron

Standing by the Wall A Slough House Interlude

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

Sentenced to Die Until Proven Guilty, Injustice for All, Trial by Fury — J. A. Jance

Sentenced to Die Until Proven Guilty, Injustice for All, Trial by Fury — J. A. Jance

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

Killer Chameleon — Chassie West

Killer Chameleon

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

By a Spider’s Thread — Laura Lippman

By a Spider’s Thread

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

A Drink Before the War The First Kenzie and Gennaro Novel — Dennis Lehane

A Drink Before the War The First Kenzie and Gennaro Novel

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

The Saint in London — Leslie Charteris

The Saint in London

Leslie Charteris

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

Blessing of the Lost Girls A Brady and Walker Family Novel — J. A. Jance

Blessing of the Lost Girls A Brady and Walker Family Novel — J. A. Jance

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

Bad Actors — Mick Herron

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

Darkness, Take My Hand A Kenzie and Gennaro Novel — Dennis Lehane

Darkness, Take My Hand A Kenzie and Gennaro Novel

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

The Secret of Chimneys — Agatha Christie

The Secret of Chimneys

Agatha Christie

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes) Gilded Pocket Edition — Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes) Gilded Pocket Edition

Arthur Conan Doyle

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

No Good Deeds A Tess Monaghan Novel — Laura Lippman

No Good Deeds A Tess Monaghan Novel

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

From the Grave A Mac McKenzie Novel — David Housewright

From the Grave A Mac McKenzie Novel

David Housewright

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

Live Flesh — Ruth Rendell

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

The Last Kind Word — David Housewright

The Last Kind Word

David Housewright

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

The Avenging Saint — Leslie Charteris

The Avenging Saint

Leslie Charteris

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

Deadlock — Graham Ison

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

Blood Grove — Walter Mosley

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

The Chill — Ross Macdonald

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

A Bitter Feast A Novel — Deborah Crombie

A Bitter Feast A Novel

Deborah Crombie

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

This Man is Dangerous — Peter Cheyney

This Man is Dangerous

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Traditional • Crime

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