Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 59 Philip Marlowe 54 Dashiell Hammett 52 Mickey Spillane 51 noir 48 Ellroy 47 James Ellroy 46 hardboiled 46 Charles Bukowski 45 film noir 45 noirs 45 gumshoe 45 Peter Mayle 44 antihero 44 noirish 44 Graysmith 43 neo noir 43 antiheroes 43 detective 43 Zodiac killer 43 whodunit 43 Double Indemnity 43 gangster 42 misanthropy 42 Vic Mackey 42 novelist 42 Eric Rohmer 42 bloodsucker 42 homicide detective 42 potboiler 42 pulp fiction 41 Elmore Leonard 41 Peckinpah 41 screwball comedies 41 Odets 41 Telly Savalas 41 newspaperman 41 gunfighter 41 auteur 41 gangster flick 41 Dalton Trumbo 40 pulpy 40 Moonlight Mile 40 Sidney Sheldon 40 Roy Scheider 40 bard 40 whodunnit 40 Sam Spade 40 protagonist 40 Chuck Palahniuk 40 assassin 40 Rooster Cogburn 40 François Truffaut 40 bohemians 40 Scorcese 39 Southern belle 39 Less Than Zero 39 spaghetti westerns 39 sendup 39 Ernest Hemingway 39 Luis Buñuel 39 HP Lovecraft 39 John le Carré 39 bohemian 39 psychopathic killer 39 Richard Widmark 39 fable 39 Palahniuk 39 Paul Auster 39 romanticism 39 bounty hunter 39 gunslinger 39 Coen Brothers 39 esthete 39 gothic horror 39 lawman 39 spaghetti western 39 sex fiend 38 picaresque 38 Orson Welles 38 novels 38 Flaubert 38 femme fatale 38 Humphrey Bogart 38 Anton Chigurh 38 Ferlinghetti 38 Marlon Brando 38 curmudgeon 38 loner 38 literal minded 38 gore fest 38 LAPD detective 38 James Joyce Ulysses 38 Westerns 38 Budd Schulberg 38 Paul Mazursky 38 hustler 38 Buñuel 38 Marcel Proust 38 cop 38 westerns 38 Mordecai Richler