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Shadows of Truth (Jake Scott Mystery Series, #4)
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4.42 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Complicated Moonlight (DCYE, #2)
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4.36 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Don't Close Your Eyes
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3.75 avg rating — 615 ratings
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Double Indemnity
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4.06 avg rating — 28,620 ratings
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EVO
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4.02 avg rating — 837 ratings
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Mad Love (DCYE, #3)
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4.38 avg rating — 217 ratings
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The Maltese Falcon
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3.86 avg rating — 116,062 ratings
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THE ABDUCTION OF GRACE
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4.15 avg rating — 155 ratings
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The Maltese Falcon
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3.86 avg rating — 116,062 ratings
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Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 29,896 ratings
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Pop. 1280
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4.04 avg rating — 12,532 ratings
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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3.76 avg rating — 49,015 ratings
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Murder on the Set: An Amanda Pennyworth Mystery
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4.45 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Getaway
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3.86 avg rating — 8,891 ratings
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The Killer Inside Me
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3.87 avg rating — 27,155 ratings
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The Grifters
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3.92 avg rating — 12,300 ratings
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The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 196,333 ratings
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Sherlock Holmes: His Greatest Cases
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4.28 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Other Paths to Glory (Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler #5)
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3.89 avg rating — 442 ratings
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The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 20,316 ratings
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American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 101,833 ratings
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Memory Man (Amos Decker, # 1)
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4.13 avg rating — 159,539 ratings
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The Camel Club (The Camel Club, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 98,495 ratings
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The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)
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3.99 avg rating — 10,814 ratings
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The Choirboys
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4.03 avg rating — 6,433 ratings
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The Big Clock
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3.84 avg rating — 2,731 ratings
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The Hollow Man (Dr. Gideon Fell, #6)
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3.77 avg rating — 4,842 ratings
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The Glass Key
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3.92 avg rating — 13,727 ratings
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The Best of Father Brown
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3.68 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Beast In View
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3.72 avg rating — 2,578 ratings
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The Blue Room
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3.84 avg rating — 13,597 ratings
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After Dark, My Sweet
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3.90 avg rating — 4,766 ratings
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The Old Vengeful
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3.85 avg rating — 128 ratings
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The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels
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4.17 avg rating — 3,315 ratings
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Rude Boy USA (Rude Boy USA Series Volume 1)
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4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
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You (You, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 293,883 ratings
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Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 257,305 ratings
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Cross (Alex Cross, #12)
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4.05 avg rating — 72,564 ratings
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Rogues & Patriots: A Nick Crane Thriller
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4.72 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Blood on Their Hands
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4.15 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Blindsighted (Grant County, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 121,911 ratings
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John Doe (Rizzoli & Isles, #9.5)
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3.96 avg rating — 6,664 ratings
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End Game (Will Robie, #5)
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4.21 avg rating — 56,569 ratings
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Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
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4.13 avg rating — 124,293 ratings
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A Time to Die (Victor the Assassin, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 3,543 ratings
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Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard, #2; Harry Bosch, #21; Harry Bosch Universe, #32)
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4.18 avg rating — 83,690 ratings
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Dangerous Games (DCYE, #4)
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4.33 avg rating — 81 ratings
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No Man's Land (John Puller, #4)
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4.22 avg rating — 53,361 ratings
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Killer on the Road
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3.64 avg rating — 2,379 ratings
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 43,642 ratings
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The Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee #21)
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4.27 avg rating — 5,288 ratings
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Ice (87th Precinct, #36)
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3.93 avg rating — 3,134 ratings
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Cinnamon Skin (Travis McGee #20)
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4.18 avg rating — 5,440 ratings
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The Green Ripper (Travis McGee #18)
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4.13 avg rating — 4,731 ratings
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The Empty Copper Sea (Travis McGee #17)
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4.19 avg rating — 4,911 ratings
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The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee #16)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,875 ratings
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A Bullet for Cinderella
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4.03 avg rating — 1,708 ratings
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The Turquoise Lament (Travis McGee #15)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,112 ratings
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Rogue Male (Rogue Male, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 5,720 ratings
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The Scarlet Ruse
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4.12 avg rating — 3,940 ratings
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The Speciality of the House
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4.17 avg rating — 261 ratings
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A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee #13)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,343 ratings
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Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)
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4.06 avg rating — 19,698 ratings
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The Long Lavender Look (Travis McGee #12)
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4.22 avg rating — 5,587 ratings
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Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee #11)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,794 ratings
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The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee #10)
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4.11 avg rating — 5,150 ratings
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Nightwebs
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4.02 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Pale Gray for Guilt (Travis McGee #9)
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4.18 avg rating — 5,746 ratings
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Briarpatch
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4.05 avg rating — 1,849 ratings
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One Fearful Yellow Eye (Travis McGee #8)
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4.12 avg rating — 5,587 ratings
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The Labyrinth Makers (Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler #1)
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3.71 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)
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4.08 avg rating — 5,107 ratings
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Bright Orange for the Shroud
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4.10 avg rating — 5,277 ratings
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Black Money (Lew Archer, #13)
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3.96 avg rating — 2,495 ratings
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A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee #5)
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4.10 avg rating — 7,339 ratings
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The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)
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3.95 avg rating — 6,652 ratings
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A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3)
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4.07 avg rating — 8,302 ratings
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Hammett
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3.65 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Nightmare in Pink (Travis McGee, #2)
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3.92 avg rating — 9,633 ratings
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Anatomy of a Murder
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4.05 avg rating — 3,780 ratings
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The Eighth Circle
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3.67 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Roseanna
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3.78 avg rating — 18,962 ratings
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The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
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3.79 avg rating — 8,531 ratings
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The Continental Op
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4.14 avg rating — 6,624 ratings
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Sadie When She Died (87th Precinct, #26)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,446 ratings
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Interface
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4.07 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Nothing More Than Murder
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3.72 avg rating — 1,249 ratings
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Dirty Snow
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3.89 avg rating — 4,392 ratings
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Serenade
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3.54 avg rating — 907 ratings
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A Hell of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 3,879 ratings
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Midnight Plus One
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 266 ratings
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A Swell-Looking Babe
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3.79 avg rating — 2,079 ratings
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Savage Night
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3.84 avg rating — 2,588 ratings
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It should be pretty comprehensive but feel free to add (these are not what one considers to be a master work, but books published by Orion in the "Crime Masterworks" series).
Vote for your favorite and lets see which is the master of the Masterworks (void due to absence of Raymond Chandler - but its just a bit of fun).