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Shadows of Truth (Jake Scott Mystery Series, #4)
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4.40 avg rating — 40 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 — 620 ratings
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Double Indemnity
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4.05 avg rating — 29,237 ratings
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EVO
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4.02 avg rating — 878 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 — 118,228 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 — 118,228 ratings
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Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 30,527 ratings
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Pop. 1280
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4.04 avg rating — 13,052 ratings
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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3.76 avg rating — 50,341 ratings
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The Getaway
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3.84 avg rating — 9,727 ratings
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The Killer Inside Me
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3.90 avg rating — 30,270 ratings
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The Grifters
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3.92 avg rating — 12,517 ratings
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The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 198,742 ratings
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Sherlock Holmes: His Greatest Cases
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4.28 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Other Paths to Glory (Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler #5)
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3.88 avg rating — 458 ratings
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The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 20,897 ratings
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American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 103,550 ratings
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Memory Man (Amos Decker, # 1)
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4.13 avg rating — 163,444 ratings
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The Camel Club (The Camel Club, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 100,375 ratings
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The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)
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3.99 avg rating — 11,007 ratings
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The Choirboys
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4.03 avg rating — 6,498 ratings
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The Big Clock
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3.84 avg rating — 2,802 ratings
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The Hollow Man (Dr. Gideon Fell, #6)
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3.76 avg rating — 5,401 ratings
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The Glass Key
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3.92 avg rating — 14,003 ratings
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The Best of Father Brown
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3.67 avg rating — 441 ratings
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Beast In View
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3.72 avg rating — 2,651 ratings
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The Blue Room
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3.84 avg rating — 14,256 ratings
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After Dark, My Sweet
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3.90 avg rating — 4,868 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 — 3,323 ratings
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Rude Boy USA (Rude Boy USA Series Volume 1)
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3.93 avg rating — 41 ratings
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You (You, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 298,707 ratings
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Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 267,377 ratings
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Cross (Alex Cross, #12)
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4.06 avg rating — 74,015 ratings
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Rogues & Patriots: A Nick Crane Thriller
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4.69 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Murder on the Set: An Amanda Pennyworth Mystery
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4.81 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Guidance to Death (Frank Adams Detective series Book 1)
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4.69 avg rating — 266 ratings
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The Queen's Envoy
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4.79 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Washashore (Silas Lopez Mystery, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Blindsighted (Grant County, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 128,852 ratings
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John Doe (Rizzoli & Isles, #9.5)
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3.96 avg rating — 6,805 ratings
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End Game (Will Robie, #5)
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4.21 avg rating — 57,711 ratings
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Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
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4.13 avg rating — 126,927 ratings
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A Time to Die (Victor the Assassin, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 3,656 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 — 86,332 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 — 54,378 ratings
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Killer on the Road
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3.64 avg rating — 2,425 ratings
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 44,783 ratings
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The Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee #21)
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4.27 avg rating — 5,430 ratings
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Ice (87th Precinct, #36)
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3.93 avg rating — 3,166 ratings
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Cinnamon Skin (Travis McGee #20)
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4.19 avg rating — 5,523 ratings
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The Green Ripper (Travis McGee #18)
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4.13 avg rating — 4,818 ratings
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The Empty Copper Sea (Travis McGee #17)
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4.19 avg rating — 4,994 ratings
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The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee #16)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,959 ratings
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A Bullet for Cinderella
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4.04 avg rating — 1,773 ratings
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The Turquoise Lament (Travis McGee #15)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,197 ratings
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Rogue Male (Rogue Male, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 5,963 ratings
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The Scarlet Ruse
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4.12 avg rating — 4,015 ratings
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The Speciality of the House
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4.15 avg rating — 268 ratings
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A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee #13)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,435 ratings
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Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)
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4.06 avg rating — 20,470 ratings
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The Long Lavender Look (Travis McGee #12)
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4.22 avg rating — 5,694 ratings
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Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee #11)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,855 ratings
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The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee #10)
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4.11 avg rating — 5,230 ratings
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Nightwebs
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4.01 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Pale Gray for Guilt (Travis McGee #9)
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4.19 avg rating — 5,858 ratings
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Briarpatch
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4.05 avg rating — 1,924 ratings
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One Fearful Yellow Eye (Travis McGee #8)
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4.12 avg rating — 5,703 ratings
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The Labyrinth Makers (Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 584 ratings
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Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)
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4.08 avg rating — 5,221 ratings
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Bright Orange for the Shroud
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4.10 avg rating — 5,388 ratings
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Black Money (Lew Archer, #13)
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3.95 avg rating — 2,543 ratings
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A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee #5)
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4.10 avg rating — 7,520 ratings
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The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)
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3.95 avg rating — 6,844 ratings
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A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3)
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4.07 avg rating — 8,504 ratings
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Hammett
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3.64 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Nightmare in Pink (Travis McGee, #2)
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3.92 avg rating — 9,890 ratings
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Anatomy of a Murder
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4.05 avg rating — 3,904 ratings
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The Eighth Circle
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3.67 avg rating — 274 ratings
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Roseanna
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3.78 avg rating — 19,413 ratings
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The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
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3.79 avg rating — 8,660 ratings
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The Continental Op
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4.14 avg rating — 6,662 ratings
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Sadie When She Died (87th Precinct, #26)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,513 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 — 1,275 ratings
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Dirty Snow
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3.89 avg rating — 4,584 ratings
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Serenade
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3.54 avg rating — 930 ratings
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A Hell of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 3,959 ratings
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Midnight Plus One
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3.99 avg rating — 268 ratings
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A Swell-Looking Babe
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3.78 avg rating — 2,109 ratings
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Savage Night
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3.84 avg rating — 2,650 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).