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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 — 318 ratings
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Don't Close Your Eyes
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3.75 avg rating — 619 ratings
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Double Indemnity
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4.05 avg rating — 29,598 ratings
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EVO
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4.04 avg rating — 943 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 — 119,579 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 — 119,579 ratings
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Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 30,861 ratings
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Pop. 1280
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4.03 avg rating — 13,350 ratings
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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3.75 avg rating — 51,194 ratings
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The Getaway
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3.84 avg rating — 10,048 ratings
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The Killer Inside Me
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3.90 avg rating — 30,785 ratings
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The Grifters
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3.92 avg rating — 12,628 ratings
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Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 270,903 ratings
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The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 200,190 ratings
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Sherlock Holmes: His Greatest Cases
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4.27 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
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4.13 avg rating — 128,581 ratings
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Other Paths to Glory (Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler #5)
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3.90 avg rating — 470 ratings
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The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 21,306 ratings
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American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 104,570 ratings
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Memory Man (Amos Decker, # 1)
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4.13 avg rating — 165,633 ratings
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The Camel Club (The Camel Club, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 101,391 ratings
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The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)
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3.99 avg rating — 11,158 ratings
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The Choirboys
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4.03 avg rating — 6,520 ratings
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The Big Clock
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3.84 avg rating — 2,843 ratings
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The Hollow Man (Dr. Gideon Fell, #6)
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3.75 avg rating — 5,659 ratings
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The Glass Key
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3.92 avg rating — 14,111 ratings
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The Best of Father Brown
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3.67 avg rating — 447 ratings
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Beast In View
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3.72 avg rating — 2,736 ratings
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The Blue Room
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3.84 avg rating — 14,881 ratings
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After Dark, My Sweet
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3.89 avg rating — 4,918 ratings
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The Old Vengeful
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3.83 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels
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4.17 avg rating — 3,331 ratings
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Rude Boy USA (Rude Boy USA Series Volume 1)
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3.92 avg rating — 51 ratings
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You (You, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 301,973 ratings
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Cross (Alex Cross, #12)
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4.06 avg rating — 74,668 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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4.80 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Guidance to Death (Frank Adams Detective series Book 1)
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4.67 avg rating — 260 ratings
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The Queen's Envoy
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4.77 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Washashore (Silas Lopez Mystery, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Blindsighted (Grant County, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 133,604 ratings
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John Doe (Rizzoli & Isles, #9.5)
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3.96 avg rating — 6,901 ratings
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End Game (Will Robie, #5)
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4.21 avg rating — 58,429 ratings
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A Time to Die (Victor the Assassin, #6)
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4.29 avg rating — 3,710 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 — 87,969 ratings
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Dangerous Games (DCYE, #4)
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4.33 avg rating — 79 ratings
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No Man's Land (John Puller, #4)
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4.22 avg rating — 55,036 ratings
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Killer on the Road
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3.64 avg rating — 2,465 ratings
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 45,675 ratings
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The Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee #21)
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4.27 avg rating — 5,502 ratings
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Ice (87th Precinct, #36)
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3.93 avg rating — 3,188 ratings
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Cinnamon Skin (Travis McGee #20)
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4.19 avg rating — 5,576 ratings
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The Green Ripper (Travis McGee #18)
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4.13 avg rating — 4,865 ratings
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The Empty Copper Sea (Travis McGee #17)
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4.19 avg rating — 5,034 ratings
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The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee #16)
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4.11 avg rating — 5,010 ratings
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A Bullet for Cinderella
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4.04 avg rating — 1,823 ratings
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The Turquoise Lament (Travis McGee #15)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,239 ratings
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Rogue Male (Rogue Male, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 6,117 ratings
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The Scarlet Ruse
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4.12 avg rating — 4,071 ratings
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The Speciality of the House
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4.15 avg rating — 270 ratings
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A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee #13)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,483 ratings
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Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)
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4.06 avg rating — 20,888 ratings
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The Long Lavender Look (Travis McGee #12)
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4.23 avg rating — 5,760 ratings
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Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee #11)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,928 ratings
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The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee #10)
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4.11 avg rating — 5,315 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 — 6,011 ratings
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Briarpatch
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4.06 avg rating — 2,083 ratings
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One Fearful Yellow Eye (Travis McGee #8)
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4.12 avg rating — 5,786 ratings
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The Labyrinth Makers (Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 601 ratings
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Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)
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4.08 avg rating — 5,292 ratings
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Bright Orange for the Shroud
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4.10 avg rating — 5,485 ratings
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Black Money (Lew Archer, #13)
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3.95 avg rating — 2,610 ratings
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A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee #5)
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4.11 avg rating — 7,612 ratings
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The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)
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3.95 avg rating — 6,924 ratings
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A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3)
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4.07 avg rating — 8,608 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 — 10,028 ratings
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Anatomy of a Murder
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4.05 avg rating — 3,971 ratings
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The Eighth Circle
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3.66 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Roseanna
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3.78 avg rating — 19,706 ratings
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The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
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3.78 avg rating — 8,776 ratings
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The Continental Op
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4.14 avg rating — 6,696 ratings
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Sadie When She Died (87th Precinct, #26)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,533 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 — 1,293 ratings
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Dirty Snow
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3.88 avg rating — 4,695 ratings
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Serenade
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3.54 avg rating — 940 ratings
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A Hell of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 4,010 ratings
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Midnight Plus One
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3.99 avg rating — 275 ratings
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A Swell-Looking Babe
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3.78 avg rating — 2,136 ratings
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Savage Night
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3.84 avg rating — 2,682 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).