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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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4.34 avg rating — 317 ratings
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Don't Close Your Eyes
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3.75 avg rating — 617 ratings
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Double Indemnity
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4.06 avg rating — 28,821 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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4.35 avg rating — 219 ratings
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The Maltese Falcon
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3.86 avg rating — 116,631 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 — 116,631 ratings
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Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 30,076 ratings
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Pop. 1280
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4.04 avg rating — 12,674 ratings
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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3.76 avg rating — 49,329 ratings
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Murder on the Set: An Amanda Pennyworth Mystery
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4.73 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Getaway
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3.86 avg rating — 9,219 ratings
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The Killer Inside Me
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3.88 avg rating — 28,324 ratings
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The Grifters
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3.92 avg rating — 12,356 ratings
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The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 196,882 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 — 447 ratings
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The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 20,479 ratings
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American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 102,251 ratings
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Memory Man (Amos Decker, # 1)
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4.13 avg rating — 160,372 ratings
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The Camel Club (The Camel Club, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 98,834 ratings
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The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)
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3.99 avg rating — 10,849 ratings
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The Choirboys
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4.03 avg rating — 6,453 ratings
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The Big Clock
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3.84 avg rating — 2,749 ratings
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The Hollow Man (Dr. Gideon Fell, #6)
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3.76 avg rating — 5,041 ratings
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The Glass Key
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3.92 avg rating — 13,827 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 — 2,592 ratings
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The Blue Room
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3.84 avg rating — 13,736 ratings
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After Dark, My Sweet
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3.90 avg rating — 4,795 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 — 3,320 ratings
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Rude Boy USA (Rude Boy USA Series Volume 1)
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4.06 avg rating — 31 ratings
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You (You, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 295,038 ratings
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Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 260,213 ratings
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Cross (Alex Cross, #12)
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4.06 avg rating — 72,977 ratings
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Rogues & Patriots: A Nick Crane Thriller
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4.70 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Blindsighted (Grant County, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 123,395 ratings
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John Doe (Rizzoli & Isles, #9.5)
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3.96 avg rating — 6,705 ratings
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End Game (Will Robie, #5)
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4.21 avg rating — 56,845 ratings
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Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
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4.13 avg rating — 124,984 ratings
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A Time to Die (Victor the Assassin, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 3,575 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 — 84,347 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 — 53,627 ratings
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Killer on the Road
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3.64 avg rating — 2,389 ratings
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 43,943 ratings
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The Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee #21)
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4.27 avg rating — 5,343 ratings
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Ice (87th Precinct, #36)
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3.92 avg rating — 3,143 ratings
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Cinnamon Skin (Travis McGee #20)
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4.18 avg rating — 5,463 ratings
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The Green Ripper (Travis McGee #18)
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4.13 avg rating — 4,752 ratings
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The Empty Copper Sea (Travis McGee #17)
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4.19 avg rating — 4,933 ratings
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The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee #16)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,903 ratings
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A Bullet for Cinderella
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4.03 avg rating — 1,721 ratings
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The Turquoise Lament (Travis McGee #15)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,142 ratings
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Rogue Male (Rogue Male, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 5,786 ratings
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The Scarlet Ruse
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4.12 avg rating — 3,961 ratings
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The Speciality of the House
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4.17 avg rating — 263 ratings
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A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee #13)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,372 ratings
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Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)
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4.06 avg rating — 19,890 ratings
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The Long Lavender Look (Travis McGee #12)
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4.22 avg rating — 5,620 ratings
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Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee #11)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,811 ratings
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The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee #10)
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4.11 avg rating — 5,174 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 — 5,780 ratings
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Briarpatch
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4.05 avg rating — 1,865 ratings
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One Fearful Yellow Eye (Travis McGee #8)
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4.12 avg rating — 5,615 ratings
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The Labyrinth Makers (Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler #1)
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3.71 avg rating — 561 ratings
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Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)
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4.08 avg rating — 5,132 ratings
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Bright Orange for the Shroud
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4.10 avg rating — 5,302 ratings
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Black Money (Lew Archer, #13)
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3.95 avg rating — 2,510 ratings
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A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee #5)
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4.10 avg rating — 7,369 ratings
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The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)
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3.95 avg rating — 6,700 ratings
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A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3)
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4.07 avg rating — 8,359 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 — 9,700 ratings
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Anatomy of a Murder
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4.05 avg rating — 3,811 ratings
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The Eighth Circle
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3.67 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Roseanna
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3.78 avg rating — 19,102 ratings
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The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
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3.79 avg rating — 8,568 ratings
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The Continental Op
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4.14 avg rating — 6,635 ratings
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Sadie When She Died (87th Precinct, #26)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,454 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 — 1,254 ratings
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Dirty Snow
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3.89 avg rating — 4,432 ratings
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Serenade
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3.54 avg rating — 913 ratings
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A Hell of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 3,904 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 — 2,089 ratings
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Savage Night
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3.84 avg rating — 2,610 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).