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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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4.34 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Don't Close Your Eyes
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3.75 avg rating — 620 ratings
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Double Indemnity
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4.05 avg rating — 28,994 ratings
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EVO
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4.02 avg rating — 841 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 — 117,307 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 — 117,307 ratings
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Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 30,287 ratings
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Pop. 1280
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4.04 avg rating — 12,851 ratings
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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3.76 avg rating — 49,742 ratings
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The Getaway
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3.85 avg rating — 9,487 ratings
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The Killer Inside Me
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3.89 avg rating — 29,471 ratings
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The Grifters
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3.92 avg rating — 12,437 ratings
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The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 197,669 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 — 451 ratings
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The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 20,674 ratings
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American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 102,764 ratings
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Memory Man (Amos Decker, # 1)
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4.13 avg rating — 161,519 ratings
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The Camel Club (The Camel Club, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 99,335 ratings
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The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)
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3.99 avg rating — 10,916 ratings
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The Choirboys
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4.03 avg rating — 6,480 ratings
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The Big Clock
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3.84 avg rating — 2,779 ratings
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The Hollow Man (Dr. Gideon Fell, #6)
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3.76 avg rating — 5,243 ratings
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The Glass Key
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3.92 avg rating — 13,902 ratings
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The Best of Father Brown
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3.67 avg rating — 439 ratings
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Beast In View
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3.72 avg rating — 2,618 ratings
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The Blue Room
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3.84 avg rating — 13,941 ratings
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After Dark, My Sweet
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3.90 avg rating — 4,822 ratings
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The Old Vengeful
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3.84 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels
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4.17 avg rating — 3,319 ratings
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Rude Boy USA (Rude Boy USA Series Volume 1)
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3.97 avg rating — 38 ratings
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You (You, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 296,699 ratings
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Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 263,975 ratings
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Cross (Alex Cross, #12)
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4.06 avg rating — 73,434 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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4.82 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Guidance to Death (Frank Adams Detective series Book 1)
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4.66 avg rating — 242 ratings
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The Queen's Envoy
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4.80 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Washashore (Silas Lopez Mystery, #1)
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4.51 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Blindsighted (Grant County, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 125,483 ratings
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John Doe (Rizzoli & Isles, #9.5)
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3.96 avg rating — 6,750 ratings
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End Game (Will Robie, #5)
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4.21 avg rating — 57,227 ratings
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Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
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4.13 avg rating — 125,828 ratings
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A Time to Die (Victor the Assassin, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 3,613 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 — 85,264 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 — 53,961 ratings
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Killer on the Road
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3.64 avg rating — 2,403 ratings
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 44,335 ratings
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The Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee #21)
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4.27 avg rating — 5,387 ratings
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Ice (87th Precinct, #36)
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3.93 avg rating — 3,155 ratings
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Cinnamon Skin (Travis McGee #20)
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4.18 avg rating — 5,494 ratings
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The Green Ripper (Travis McGee #18)
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4.13 avg rating — 4,783 ratings
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The Empty Copper Sea (Travis McGee #17)
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4.19 avg rating — 4,963 ratings
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The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee #16)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,930 ratings
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A Bullet for Cinderella
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4.04 avg rating — 1,739 ratings
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The Turquoise Lament (Travis McGee #15)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,168 ratings
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Rogue Male (Rogue Male, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 5,865 ratings
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The Scarlet Ruse
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4.12 avg rating — 3,988 ratings
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The Speciality of the House
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4.16 avg rating — 266 ratings
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A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee #13)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,405 ratings
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Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)
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4.06 avg rating — 20,136 ratings
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The Long Lavender Look (Travis McGee #12)
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4.22 avg rating — 5,657 ratings
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Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee #11)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,839 ratings
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The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee #10)
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4.11 avg rating — 5,201 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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4.19 avg rating — 5,812 ratings
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Briarpatch
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4.05 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
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One Fearful Yellow Eye (Travis McGee #8)
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4.12 avg rating — 5,650 ratings
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The Labyrinth Makers (Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler #1)
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3.71 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)
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4.08 avg rating — 5,172 ratings
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Bright Orange for the Shroud
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4.10 avg rating — 5,336 ratings
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Black Money (Lew Archer, #13)
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3.95 avg rating — 2,528 ratings
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A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee #5)
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4.10 avg rating — 7,452 ratings
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The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)
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3.95 avg rating — 6,767 ratings
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A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3)
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4.07 avg rating — 8,420 ratings
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Hammett
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3.64 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Nightmare in Pink (Travis McGee, #2)
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3.92 avg rating — 9,795 ratings
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Anatomy of a Murder
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4.05 avg rating — 3,854 ratings
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The Eighth Circle
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3.66 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Roseanna
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3.78 avg rating — 19,203 ratings
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The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
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3.79 avg rating — 8,603 ratings
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The Continental Op
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4.14 avg rating — 6,647 ratings
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Sadie When She Died (87th Precinct, #26)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,484 ratings
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Interface
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4.05 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Nothing More Than Murder
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3.72 avg rating — 1,266 ratings
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Dirty Snow
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3.89 avg rating — 4,508 ratings
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Serenade
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3.54 avg rating — 923 ratings
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A Hell of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 3,928 ratings
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Midnight Plus One
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 267 ratings
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A Swell-Looking Babe
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3.79 avg rating — 2,101 ratings
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Savage Night
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3.84 avg rating — 2,630 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).