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Shadows of Truth (Jake Scott Mystery Series, #4)
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4.39 avg rating — 38 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 — 617 ratings
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Double Indemnity
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4.05 avg rating — 28,903 ratings
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EVO
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4.02 avg rating — 838 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 — 116,960 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 — 116,960 ratings
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Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 30,176 ratings
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Pop. 1280
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4.04 avg rating — 12,764 ratings
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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3.76 avg rating — 49,527 ratings
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Murder on the Set: An Amanda Pennyworth Mystery
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4.75 avg rating — 106 ratings
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The Getaway
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3.85 avg rating — 9,359 ratings
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The Killer Inside Me
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3.88 avg rating — 29,088 ratings
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The Grifters
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3.92 avg rating — 12,397 ratings
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The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 197,249 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 — 449 ratings
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The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 20,577 ratings
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American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 102,483 ratings
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Memory Man (Amos Decker, # 1)
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4.13 avg rating — 160,892 ratings
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The Camel Club (The Camel Club, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 99,027 ratings
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The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)
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3.99 avg rating — 10,872 ratings
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The Choirboys
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4.03 avg rating — 6,460 ratings
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The Big Clock
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3.84 avg rating — 2,763 ratings
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The Hollow Man (Dr. Gideon Fell, #6)
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3.76 avg rating — 5,141 ratings
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The Glass Key
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3.92 avg rating — 13,870 ratings
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The Best of Father Brown
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3.68 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Beast In View
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3.72 avg rating — 2,605 ratings
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The Blue Room
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3.84 avg rating — 13,836 ratings
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After Dark, My Sweet
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3.90 avg rating — 4,807 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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4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings
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You (You, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 295,852 ratings
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Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 262,267 ratings
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Cross (Alex Cross, #12)
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4.06 avg rating — 73,198 ratings
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Rogues & Patriots: A Nick Crane Thriller
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4.69 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Guidance to Death (Frank Adams Detective series Book 1)
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4.67 avg rating — 240 ratings
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The Queen's Envoy
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4.79 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Blindsighted (Grant County, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 124,285 ratings
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John Doe (Rizzoli & Isles, #9.5)
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3.96 avg rating — 6,729 ratings
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End Game (Will Robie, #5)
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4.21 avg rating — 57,035 ratings
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Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
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4.13 avg rating — 125,383 ratings
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A Time to Die (Victor the Assassin, #6)
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4.30 avg rating — 3,588 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 — 84,764 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 — 53,785 ratings
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Killer on the Road
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3.64 avg rating — 2,395 ratings
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 44,150 ratings
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The Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee #21)
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4.27 avg rating — 5,368 ratings
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Ice (87th Precinct, #36)
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3.93 avg rating — 3,150 ratings
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Cinnamon Skin (Travis McGee #20)
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4.18 avg rating — 5,478 ratings
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The Green Ripper (Travis McGee #18)
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4.13 avg rating — 4,769 ratings
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The Empty Copper Sea (Travis McGee #17)
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4.19 avg rating — 4,947 ratings
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The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee #16)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,912 ratings
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A Bullet for Cinderella
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4.03 avg rating — 1,730 ratings
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The Turquoise Lament (Travis McGee #15)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,153 ratings
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Rogue Male (Rogue Male, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 5,816 ratings
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The Scarlet Ruse
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4.12 avg rating — 3,972 ratings
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The Speciality of the House
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4.16 avg rating — 264 ratings
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A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee #13)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,393 ratings
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Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)
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4.06 avg rating — 20,001 ratings
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The Long Lavender Look (Travis McGee #12)
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4.22 avg rating — 5,643 ratings
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Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee #11)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,824 ratings
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The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee #10)
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4.11 avg rating — 5,187 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 — 5,797 ratings
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Briarpatch
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4.05 avg rating — 1,891 ratings
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One Fearful Yellow Eye (Travis McGee #8)
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4.12 avg rating — 5,634 ratings
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The Labyrinth Makers (Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler #1)
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3.71 avg rating — 567 ratings
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Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)
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4.08 avg rating — 5,153 ratings
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Bright Orange for the Shroud
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4.10 avg rating — 5,320 ratings
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Black Money (Lew Archer, #13)
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3.95 avg rating — 2,514 ratings
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A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee #5)
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4.10 avg rating — 7,409 ratings
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The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)
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3.95 avg rating — 6,733 ratings
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A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3)
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4.07 avg rating — 8,392 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 — 9,741 ratings
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Anatomy of a Murder
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4.05 avg rating — 3,832 ratings
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The Eighth Circle
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3.67 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Roseanna
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3.78 avg rating — 19,148 ratings
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The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
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3.79 avg rating — 8,580 ratings
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The Continental Op
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4.14 avg rating — 6,641 ratings
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Sadie When She Died (87th Precinct, #26)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,467 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 — 1,259 ratings
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Dirty Snow
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3.89 avg rating — 4,455 ratings
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Serenade
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3.54 avg rating — 918 ratings
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A Hell of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 3,913 ratings
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Midnight Plus One
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 268 ratings
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A Swell-Looking Babe
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3.79 avg rating — 2,094 ratings
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Savage Night
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3.84 avg rating — 2,616 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).