Books like You have yourself a deal

You have yourself a deal by James Hadley Chase reads as cynical, tense. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

You Must Be Kidding

James Hadley Chase · 1979

Shares the heist + vspare thread

86% genome match

The Maltese falcon, & The thin man

Dashiell Hammett · 1964

Shares the heist + vspare thread

69% genome match

The asphalt jungle

W. R. Burnett · 1949

Shares the heist + vspare thread

74% genome match

Sin City

Frank Miller · 1996

Shares the heist + vspare thread

72% genome match

The Blue Dahlia

Raymond Chandler · 1976

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

52 Pick-Up

Elmore Leonard · 1974

Shares the heist + vspare thread

69% genome match

The Kind Worth Killing

Peter Swanson · 2015

Shares the heist + vspare thread

69% genome match

The Getaway

Jim Thompson · 1959

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

A Gun for Sale

Graham Greene · 1936

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

The Hunter (aka Point Blank and Payback)

Donald E. Westlake · 1962

Shares the heist + vspare thread

70% genome match

No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy · 2005

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

Cloud nine

James M. Cain · 1984

Shares the heist + vspare thread

72% genome match