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Shadows of Truth (Jake Scott Mystery Series, #4)
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4.41 avg rating — 39 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 — 614 ratings
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Double Indemnity
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4.06 avg rating — 28,547 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 — 115,849 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 — 115,849 ratings
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Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 29,848 ratings
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Pop. 1280
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4.04 avg rating — 12,480 ratings
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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3.76 avg rating — 48,894 ratings
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The Getaway
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3.87 avg rating — 8,681 ratings
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The Killer Inside Me
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3.87 avg rating — 26,940 ratings
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The Grifters
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3.92 avg rating — 12,263 ratings
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The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 196,094 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 — 439 ratings
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The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 20,242 ratings
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American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 101,669 ratings
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Memory Man (Amos Decker, # 1)
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4.13 avg rating — 159,158 ratings
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The Camel Club (The Camel Club, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 98,361 ratings
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The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)
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3.99 avg rating — 10,804 ratings
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The Choirboys
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4.03 avg rating — 6,427 ratings
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The Big Clock
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3.84 avg rating — 2,727 ratings
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The Hollow Man (Dr. Gideon Fell, #6)
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3.78 avg rating — 4,752 ratings
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The Glass Key
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3.92 avg rating — 13,686 ratings
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The Best of Father Brown
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3.69 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Beast In View
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3.72 avg rating — 2,575 ratings
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The Blue Room
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3.84 avg rating — 13,532 ratings
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After Dark, My Sweet
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3.90 avg rating — 4,760 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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4.18 avg rating — 3,312 ratings
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Rude Boy USA (Rude Boy USA Series Volume 1)
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4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings
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You (You, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 293,330 ratings
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Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 256,709 ratings
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Cross (Alex Cross, #12)
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4.05 avg rating — 72,424 ratings
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Rogues & Patriots: A Nick Crane Thriller
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4.71 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Blood on Their Hands
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4.12 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Blindsighted (Grant County, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 121,411 ratings
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John Doe (Rizzoli & Isles, #9.5)
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3.96 avg rating — 6,653 ratings
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End Game (Will Robie, #5)
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4.21 avg rating — 56,451 ratings
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Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
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4.13 avg rating — 124,029 ratings
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A Time to Die (Victor the Assassin, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 3,534 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 — 83,436 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 — 53,248 ratings
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Killer on the Road
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3.64 avg rating — 2,371 ratings
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 43,509 ratings
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The Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee #21)
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4.27 avg rating — 5,282 ratings
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Ice (87th Precinct, #36)
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3.92 avg rating — 3,130 ratings
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Cinnamon Skin (Travis McGee #20)
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4.18 avg rating — 5,433 ratings
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The Green Ripper (Travis McGee #18)
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4.13 avg rating — 4,725 ratings
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The Empty Copper Sea (Travis McGee #17)
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4.19 avg rating — 4,905 ratings
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The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee #16)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,869 ratings
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A Bullet for Cinderella
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4.03 avg rating — 1,700 ratings
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The Turquoise Lament (Travis McGee #15)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,102 ratings
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Rogue Male (Rogue Male, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 5,689 ratings
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The Scarlet Ruse
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4.12 avg rating — 3,928 ratings
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The Speciality of the House
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4.17 avg rating — 260 ratings
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A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee #13)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,331 ratings
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Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)
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4.06 avg rating — 19,630 ratings
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The Long Lavender Look (Travis McGee #12)
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4.22 avg rating — 5,567 ratings
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Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee #11)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,785 ratings
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The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee #10)
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4.11 avg rating — 5,142 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 — 5,733 ratings
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Briarpatch
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4.05 avg rating — 1,845 ratings
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One Fearful Yellow Eye (Travis McGee #8)
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4.12 avg rating — 5,580 ratings
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The Labyrinth Makers (Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler #1)
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3.71 avg rating — 552 ratings
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Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)
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4.08 avg rating — 5,090 ratings
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Bright Orange for the Shroud
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4.10 avg rating — 5,251 ratings
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Black Money (Lew Archer, #13)
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3.95 avg rating — 2,485 ratings
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A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee #5)
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4.10 avg rating — 7,317 ratings
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The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)
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3.95 avg rating — 6,637 ratings
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A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3)
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4.07 avg rating — 8,276 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 — 9,598 ratings
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Anatomy of a Murder
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4.05 avg rating — 3,771 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 — 18,903 ratings
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The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
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3.79 avg rating — 8,520 ratings
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The Continental Op
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4.14 avg rating — 6,620 ratings
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Sadie When She Died (87th Precinct, #26)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,439 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 — 1,243 ratings
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Dirty Snow
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3.89 avg rating — 4,370 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 — 3,870 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 — 2,078 ratings
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Savage Night
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3.84 avg rating — 2,582 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).