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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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4.35 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Don't Close Your Eyes
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3.76 avg rating — 618 ratings
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Double Indemnity
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4.05 avg rating — 29,054 ratings
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EVO
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4.02 avg rating — 842 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 — 117,544 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 — 117,544 ratings
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Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 30,352 ratings
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Pop. 1280
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4.04 avg rating — 12,903 ratings
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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3.76 avg rating — 49,876 ratings
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The Getaway
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3.85 avg rating — 9,561 ratings
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The Killer Inside Me
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3.89 avg rating — 29,715 ratings
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The Grifters
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3.92 avg rating — 12,466 ratings
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The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 197,941 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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3.89 avg rating — 453 ratings
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The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 20,734 ratings
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American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 102,968 ratings
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Memory Man (Amos Decker, # 1)
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4.13 avg rating — 162,014 ratings
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The Camel Club (The Camel Club, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 99,629 ratings
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The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)
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3.99 avg rating — 10,936 ratings
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The Choirboys
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4.03 avg rating — 6,484 ratings
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The Big Clock
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3.84 avg rating — 2,786 ratings
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The Hollow Man (Dr. Gideon Fell, #6)
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3.76 avg rating — 5,276 ratings
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The Glass Key
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3.92 avg rating — 13,935 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 — 2,626 ratings
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The Blue Room
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3.84 avg rating — 14,017 ratings
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After Dark, My Sweet
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3.90 avg rating — 4,835 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 — 3,322 ratings
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Rude Boy USA (Rude Boy USA Series Volume 1)
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3.95 avg rating — 39 ratings
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You (You, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 297,214 ratings
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Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 265,044 ratings
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Cross (Alex Cross, #12)
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4.06 avg rating — 73,608 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 — 241 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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4.39 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Blindsighted (Grant County, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 126,285 ratings
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John Doe (Rizzoli & Isles, #9.5)
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3.96 avg rating — 6,764 ratings
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End Game (Will Robie, #5)
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4.21 avg rating — 57,346 ratings
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Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
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4.13 avg rating — 126,106 ratings
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A Time to Die (Victor the Assassin, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 3,621 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 — 85,523 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 — 54,067 ratings
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Killer on the Road
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3.64 avg rating — 2,411 ratings
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 44,438 ratings
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The Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee #21)
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4.27 avg rating — 5,396 ratings
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Ice (87th Precinct, #36)
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3.93 avg rating — 3,158 ratings
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Cinnamon Skin (Travis McGee #20)
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4.19 avg rating — 5,503 ratings
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The Green Ripper (Travis McGee #18)
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4.13 avg rating — 4,790 ratings
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The Empty Copper Sea (Travis McGee #17)
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4.19 avg rating — 4,971 ratings
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The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee #16)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,938 ratings
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A Bullet for Cinderella
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4.03 avg rating — 1,748 ratings
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The Turquoise Lament (Travis McGee #15)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,180 ratings
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Rogue Male (Rogue Male, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 5,896 ratings
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The Scarlet Ruse
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4.12 avg rating — 3,993 ratings
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The Speciality of the House
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4.15 avg rating — 267 ratings
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A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee #13)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,412 ratings
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Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)
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4.06 avg rating — 20,231 ratings
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The Long Lavender Look (Travis McGee #12)
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4.22 avg rating — 5,665 ratings
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Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee #11)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,841 ratings
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The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee #10)
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4.11 avg rating — 5,206 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 — 5,824 ratings
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Briarpatch
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4.05 avg rating — 1,909 ratings
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One Fearful Yellow Eye (Travis McGee #8)
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4.12 avg rating — 5,658 ratings
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The Labyrinth Makers (Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 576 ratings
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Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)
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4.08 avg rating — 5,185 ratings
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Bright Orange for the Shroud
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4.10 avg rating — 5,346 ratings
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Black Money (Lew Archer, #13)
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3.95 avg rating — 2,534 ratings
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A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee #5)
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4.10 avg rating — 7,468 ratings
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The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)
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3.95 avg rating — 6,784 ratings
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A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3)
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4.07 avg rating — 8,451 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 — 9,824 ratings
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Anatomy of a Murder
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4.05 avg rating — 3,866 ratings
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The Eighth Circle
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3.67 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Roseanna
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3.78 avg rating — 19,247 ratings
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The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
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3.79 avg rating — 8,614 ratings
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The Continental Op
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4.14 avg rating — 6,648 ratings
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Sadie When She Died (87th Precinct, #26)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,493 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 — 1,268 ratings
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Dirty Snow
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3.89 avg rating — 4,526 ratings
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Serenade
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3.54 avg rating — 925 ratings
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A Hell of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 3,937 ratings
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Midnight Plus One
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3.99 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 — 2,632 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).