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Shadows of Truth (Jake Scott Mystery Series, #4)
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4.41 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Complicated Moonlight (DCYE, #2)
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4.34 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Don't Close Your Eyes
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3.75 avg rating — 621 ratings
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Double Indemnity
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4.05 avg rating — 29,416 ratings
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EVO
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4.03 avg rating — 907 ratings
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Mad Love (DCYE, #3)
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4.35 avg rating — 220 ratings
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The Maltese Falcon
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3.86 avg rating — 118,896 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 — 118,896 ratings
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Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 30,700 ratings
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Pop. 1280
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4.04 avg rating — 13,194 ratings
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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3.75 avg rating — 50,767 ratings
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The Getaway
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3.84 avg rating — 9,883 ratings
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The Killer Inside Me
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3.90 avg rating — 30,599 ratings
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The Grifters
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3.92 avg rating — 12,578 ratings
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Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 269,261 ratings
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The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 199,441 ratings
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Sherlock Holmes: His Greatest Cases
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4.28 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
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4.13 avg rating — 127,744 ratings
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Other Paths to Glory (Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler #5)
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3.89 avg rating — 463 ratings
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The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 21,127 ratings
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American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 104,081 ratings
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Memory Man (Amos Decker, # 1)
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4.13 avg rating — 164,630 ratings
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The Camel Club (The Camel Club, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 100,944 ratings
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The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)
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3.99 avg rating — 11,076 ratings
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The Choirboys
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4.03 avg rating — 6,512 ratings
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The Big Clock
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3.84 avg rating — 2,828 ratings
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The Hollow Man (Dr. Gideon Fell, #6)
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3.75 avg rating — 5,527 ratings
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The Glass Key
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3.91 avg rating — 14,056 ratings
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The Best of Father Brown
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3.67 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Beast In View
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3.72 avg rating — 2,698 ratings
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The Blue Room
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3.84 avg rating — 14,646 ratings
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After Dark, My Sweet
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3.89 avg rating — 4,894 ratings
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The Old Vengeful
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3.83 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels
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4.17 avg rating — 3,327 ratings
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Rude Boy USA (Rude Boy USA Series Volume 1)
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3.91 avg rating — 44 ratings
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You (You, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 300,142 ratings
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Cross (Alex Cross, #12)
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4.06 avg rating — 74,391 ratings
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Rogues & Patriots: A Nick Crane Thriller
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4.68 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Murder on the Set: An Amanda Pennyworth Mystery
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4.79 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Guidance to Death (Frank Adams Detective series Book 1)
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4.69 avg rating — 265 ratings
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The Queen's Envoy
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4.81 avg rating — 98 ratings
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The Washashore (Silas Lopez Mystery, #1)
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4.40 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Blindsighted (Grant County, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 131,427 ratings
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John Doe (Rizzoli & Isles, #9.5)
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3.96 avg rating — 6,853 ratings
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End Game (Will Robie, #5)
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4.21 avg rating — 58,093 ratings
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A Time to Die (Victor the Assassin, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 3,674 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 — 87,258 ratings
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Dangerous Games (DCYE, #4)
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4.34 avg rating — 80 ratings
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No Man's Land (John Puller, #4)
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4.22 avg rating — 54,730 ratings
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Killer on the Road
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3.64 avg rating — 2,439 ratings
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 45,163 ratings
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The Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee #21)
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4.27 avg rating — 5,469 ratings
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Ice (87th Precinct, #36)
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3.93 avg rating — 3,173 ratings
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Cinnamon Skin (Travis McGee #20)
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4.19 avg rating — 5,556 ratings
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The Green Ripper (Travis McGee #18)
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4.13 avg rating — 4,849 ratings
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The Empty Copper Sea (Travis McGee #17)
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4.19 avg rating — 5,016 ratings
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The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee #16)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,988 ratings
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A Bullet for Cinderella
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4.04 avg rating — 1,802 ratings
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The Turquoise Lament (Travis McGee #15)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,215 ratings
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Rogue Male (Rogue Male, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 6,055 ratings
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The Scarlet Ruse
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4.12 avg rating — 4,036 ratings
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The Speciality of the House
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4.14 avg rating — 270 ratings
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A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee #13)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,450 ratings
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Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)
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4.06 avg rating — 20,704 ratings
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The Long Lavender Look (Travis McGee #12)
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4.23 avg rating — 5,736 ratings
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Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee #11)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,899 ratings
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The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee #10)
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4.11 avg rating — 5,279 ratings
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Nightwebs
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4.01 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Pale Gray for Guilt (Travis McGee #9)
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4.19 avg rating — 5,972 ratings
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Briarpatch
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4.07 avg rating — 2,028 ratings
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One Fearful Yellow Eye (Travis McGee #8)
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4.12 avg rating — 5,752 ratings
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The Labyrinth Makers (Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 592 ratings
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Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)
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4.08 avg rating — 5,256 ratings
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Bright Orange for the Shroud
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4.10 avg rating — 5,448 ratings
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Black Money (Lew Archer, #13)
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3.95 avg rating — 2,565 ratings
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A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee #5)
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4.10 avg rating — 7,572 ratings
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The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)
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3.95 avg rating — 6,884 ratings
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A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3)
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4.07 avg rating — 8,554 ratings
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Hammett
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3.65 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Nightmare in Pink (Travis McGee, #2)
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3.92 avg rating — 9,975 ratings
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Anatomy of a Murder
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4.05 avg rating — 3,944 ratings
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The Eighth Circle
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3.67 avg rating — 282 ratings
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Roseanna
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3.78 avg rating — 19,559 ratings
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The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
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3.78 avg rating — 8,721 ratings
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The Continental Op
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4.14 avg rating — 6,681 ratings
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Sadie When She Died (87th Precinct, #26)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,526 ratings
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Interface
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4.07 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Nothing More Than Murder
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3.72 avg rating — 1,284 ratings
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Dirty Snow
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3.88 avg rating — 4,652 ratings
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Serenade
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3.54 avg rating — 933 ratings
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A Hell of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 3,993 ratings
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Midnight Plus One
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3.99 avg rating — 269 ratings
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A Swell-Looking Babe
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3.78 avg rating — 2,125 ratings
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Savage Night
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3.84 avg rating — 2,664 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).