I want to congratulate Charles and Max on having now
published 40 Hard Case Crime titles. Already Christa Faust's
Money Shot seems to be popular, though with only five ratings
on GoodReads.com. Ironically the HCC title rated
(=read) most often on that site was Stephen King's at 400
times, but its accumulated rating put it 35th out of the 40
titles in popularity.
There probably aren't enough of ratings of most of the HCC
books on GoodReads to make it a really good gauge of the
popularity of these titles, but nonetheless sites like that
help sell books and it's interesting to see how popular the
titles are on a scale of 1 to 5. Here are the top 20:
Say It with Bullets - Richard Powell - 4.00 Money Shot -
Christa Faust - 4.00 The Vengeful Virgin - Gil Brewer - 3.87
A Touch of Death - Charles Williams - 3.86 Fade to Blonde -
Max Phillips - 3.82 The Girl with the Long Green Heart -
Lawrence Block - 3.74 The Gutter and the Grave - Ed McBain -
3.68 The Wounded and the Slain - David Goodis - 3.67 Songs of
Innocence - Richard Aleas - 3.67 Home is the Sailor - Day
Keene - 3.67 Little Girl Lost - Richard Aleas - 3.66 Night
Walker - Donald Hamilton - 3.64 The Confession - Domenic
Stansberry - 3.63 Grifter's Game - Lawrence Block - 3.62
Branded Woman - Wade Miller - 3.58 Lucky at Cards - Lawrence
Block - 3.57 Bust - Ken Bruen and Jason Starr - 3.55 The Last
Match - David Dodge - 3.40 Kill Now, Pay Later - Robert
Terrall - 3.38 The Peddler - Richard S. Prather - 3.36
Jeff
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