Genre :: Crime (23 books)

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  #58

  Crime and Punishment

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  (18 Reviews)

  298 Points

  "On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge. (Garnett..."

  

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  #108

  An American Tragedy

  by Theodore Dreiser

  (4 Reviews)

  179 Points

  "Dusk - of a summer night."

  

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  #128

  The Big Sleep

  by Raymond Chandler

  (7 Reviews)

  152 Points

  "It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills."

  

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  #162

  Brighton Rock

  by Graham Greene

  (4 Reviews)

  125 Points

  "Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.Hale knew they meant to murder him before he had been in Brighton three hours. [1956 ed.]"

  

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  #221

  Trainspotting

  by Irvine Welsh

  (5 Reviews)

  91 Points

  "Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low..."

  

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  #238

  The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

  by Heinrich Böll

  (3 Reviews)

  87 Points

  "Für den folgenden Bericht gibt es einige Neben- und drei Hauptquellen, die hier am Anfang einmal genannt, dann aber nicht mehr erwähnt werden."

  

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  #242

  In Cold Blood

  by Truman Capote

  (12 Reviews)

  86 Points

  "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call 'out there'."

  

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  #248

  The Maltese Falcon

  by Dashiell Hammett

  (9 Reviews)

  85 Points

  "Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth."

  

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  #278

  The Moonstone

  by Wilkie Collins

  (3 Reviews)

  76 Points

  "In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: 'Now I saw, though too late, The Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and..."

  

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  #305

  The Executioner's Song

  by Norman Mailer

  (3 Reviews)

  70 Points

  "Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree."

  

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