David Goodis

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1953
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • The Blue Sweetheart

    Thick sticky heat came gushing from the Indian Ocean, closed in on Ceylon, and it seemed to Clayton that he was the sole target. He sat at the bar of a joint called Kroner's on the Colombo waterfront, and tried vainly to cool himself with gin and ice...

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  • Black Friday

    From the author of Dark Passage and Shoot the Piano Player, a thriller about the dark ethics of crime, and the man unlucky enough to violate them.

    With its chilling portrait of a doomed man sorting his way among the perverse loyalties of a cri...

  • Shoot the Piano Player

    Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging h...

  • The Burglar

    For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. In The Burglar (1953), first published like all his later novels as a paperback original, ...

  • Nightfall

    For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. In Nightfall (1947), David Goodis explores the theme of the innocent pursued, as artist Ji...

  • Street of No Return

    For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. In Street of No Return (1954), David Goodis presents a skid row odyssey in which a famous ...

  • Cassidy's Girl

    David Goodis (1917â€"1967) was an American crime fiction writer noted for his noir novels and short stories. His 1951 novel CASSIDY'S GIRL draws on his life in Philadelphia, where he prowled the underside of city life, frequenting nightclubs and seed...

  • Night Squad

    When a cop goes bad, he can always become a crook.  When a crook goes bad--that's when the Night Squad wants him.

    David Goodis's irresistibly readable study of corruption is a masterly portrait of a man clawing his way back from betrayal--an...



  • The Blonde on the Street Corner

  • The Moon in the Gutter

    For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. The Moon in the Gutter (1953) is one of David Goodis’s many tours of the down-and-out neighbo...

  • Dark Passage

    For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. David Goodis experienced a brief celebrity when his novel Dark Passage (1946) became the b...

  • Of Tender Sin

    Painting noir in the blackest shades, Goodis captures the bleak desperation of the urban jungle like no other writer before or since. -- Neon"Nobody does despair like [Goodis] did!" -- Time OutAlvin Darby’s comfortable, middle class lifestyle is pl...

  • The Dark Chase

    The book that gave Goodis his greatest success. James Vanning, artist, suffers through blackouts and hallucinations. He's not sure if he's even committed robbery and murder. A police psychologist says he's there to help, but only wants to entrap Vann...

  • The Wounded and the Slain

    Hard Case Crime - 31

    Their marriage on the rocks, James and Cora Bevan flew to Jamaica for a last chance at patching things up. But in the slums of Kingston James found himself fighting for his life--while Cora found her own path to destruction, in the arms of another ma...

  • The Cloud Wizard

    Sky Raiders, February, 1943THE CLOUD WIZARDby David GoodisThey were all in awe of Bersbee, because the man was more than just a genius–he was a veritable sorcerer in the clouds. And no one dared to ask him how he did it, until one day...5600 W...

  • The Cop on the Corner

    PERIL PRESS presents: Manhunt, April 1953 THE BLUE SWEETHEART A Novelette by David Goodis A glittering stone and a beautiful blonde -- and Hagan wanted them both; wanted them badly enough to kill for them. SUSPENSE: For pure adventure, strongly seas...

  • Kid Brother

  • Killer Ace



  • Cloud Buster

    Fighting Aces, May 1944CLOUD BUSTERA DRAMATIC SKY-WAR STORYby David Goodisas Ray P. Shotwell“I may fail this squadron in a lot of ways, but there’s one thing you can be sure of. A Hun knocked my brother out of the skies—I’...

  • Cloud War

    Sky Raiders, February, 1943THE CLOUD WIZARDby David GoodisThey were all in awe of Bersbee, because the man was more than just a genius–he was a veritable sorcerer in the clouds. And no one dared to ask him how he did it, until one day...5600 W...

  • The Secret Squad

    In David Goodis's bruising crime novel The Secret Squad, Corey Bradford is on the skids and on a quick trip to boozeland. He was a plainclothes cop who got caught with his hands in pockets where they didn't belong and he was pushed out the precinct ...

  • Nightfall // Cassidy's Girl // Night Squad

    NIGHTFALLJim Vanning stands at the window of his Greenwich Village apartment. It’s a hot, sticky night, but he’s afraid to go out. Vanning is haunted by memories of a car accident…and a gun. He’s killed a man, and he knows they will be coming...

  • Doom for the Hawks of Nippon

    These gripping tales of airwar fiction shares the woeful journey of many high-flying fighters soaring around the globe for glory, victory, and redemption. Battle Birds brought readers a thrilling main story, referred to as a “novel”, that...

  • Wings Against The World

    The best stories in air fiction, this edition of Battle Birds features a band of unlikely heroes facing an army all on their own and war birds without any nation to call home and enemies on all sides. Battle Birds brought readers a thrilling main sto...

  • Somebody's Done For

    SOMEBODY'S DONE FORCalvin Jander is just about done for when his boat capsizes and he's forced to tread water, hoping for a sight of land. When he does find the shore, he's just barely alive. And that's when Vera finds him. She takes him to her shack...

  • The Plunge

    Roy Childers is a detective who has tried to stay clean in a corrupt police force. He becomes obsessed with finding escaped convict Dice Nolan. But his stakeout leads him into an illicit affair and a fierce jealousy that causes him to lose control. W...

  • The Blue Sweatheart

    Hunted for a priceless sapphire he recently acquired, Clayton hides in a seedy Ceylon bar, relying on his friend Kroner for escape. But Clayton's toxic history with the gem's ruthless seeker Rudy Hagen and Hagen's lover Alma soon erupts. When Alma ma...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Goodis has published 28 books.

David Goodis does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Blue Sweatheart, was published in January 2024.

The first book by David Goodis, The Blue Sweetheart, was published in April 1953.

No. David Goodis does not write books in series.
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