Books like The tough guys by Mickey Spillane

Nero Wolfe tackles a mysterious case involving a fer‑de‑lance, as Archie Goodwin inches closer to unraveling murders that confound even the cunning detective.

Private investigator Fletch races through California to recover a lost art collection while evading police suspicion and confronting a shocking murder.

TRAVIS MCGEE #1

In Boston’s gritty Dorchester, private eyes Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro investigate a missing woman and a vanished detective, confronting a web of lies, corruption, and violence while risking their lives.

Johnny McBride returns to his hometown, only to find crooked cops, dangerous gangsters, and a community that wants him gone or dead.

An omnibus of Mickey Spillane’s first three Mike Hammer novels, showcasing the hard‑boiled detective’s gritty, fast‑paced adventures in classic American mystery style.

Travis McGee #13

Matthew Scudder faces a new death‑row investigation that pulls him into a web of murders threatening his own family, pushing the New York‑based detective to the edge of mortality and suspense.

Her twin sister Jenine had been murdered, and Jeanette Boyington wanted St. Louis-based private eye Alo Nudger to help find the killer. Nudger knew he shouldn't take the case, knew it wasn't a good idea to get involved in an active police investigation. But he needed the work, and so he agreed to take it—and soon found himself caught in a web of deceit and danger.A murderer is stalking the streets of the Gateway City, and the only connection between his victims are the nightlines—special phone lines used by the phone company to test equipment. At night, lonely people use them to make contact with each other: to talk, to meet, perhaps, to have someone who will care, even if just for a moment, anonymously. But something has gone horribly wrong, and people are dying.Nudger is part of the network now, and discovers the very special lure of the nightlines when he falls in love with a woman he meets over them. A woman who may be the next victim...

A southern gothic mystery series featuring Annie Darling and her husband Max, set in the 1970s and 1990s, involving the death of a family and the uncovering of dark deeds 20 and 22 years later.

A collection of short stories featuring Leslie Charteris’s famed gentleman thief, Simon Templar, the elusive Saint.

Travis McGee #21

A Nero Wolfe detective collection, Three Witnesses gathers three 1950s novellas where each crime begins with an eyewitness to the event’s prologue.

Detective Philip Trent solves the case three times, each time closer to the truth.

After a former convict is murdered, New York detective Mike Hammer hunts the killer, but a seductive woman complicates his pursuit of justice.

Mickey Spillane’s hard‑boiled detective Mike Hammer is thrust into a bloody battle of wits when his secretary Velda is found wounded alongside a murdered client—crime erupts and vengeance begins.