Genre :: Crime (23 books)

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  #348

  The Secret History

  by Donna Tartt

  (8 Reviews)

  63 Points

  "The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. (Prologue)Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that..."

  

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  #373

  The Secret Agent

  by Joseph Conrad

  (3 Reviews)

  55 Points

  "Mr. Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all..."

  

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  #405

  American Psycho

  by Bret Easton Ellis

  (11 Reviews)

  49 Points

  "ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE, is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the..."

  

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  #416

  Petersburg

  by Andrei Bely

  (2 Reviews)

  46 Points

  "Your Excellencies, Your Lordships, Your Honors, Citizens!"

  

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  #442

  Red Harvest

  by Dashiell Hammett

  (3 Reviews)

  40 Points

  "I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte."

  

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  #470

  Berlin Alexanderplatz

  by Alfred Döblin

  (2 Reviews)

  31 Points

  "He stood in front of the Tegel Prison gate and was free now."

  

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  #492

  The Godfather

  by Mario Puzo

  (6 Reviews)

  28 Points

  "Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court No. 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her."

  

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  #522

  The Bottle Factory Outing

  by Beryl Bainbridge

  (2 Reviews)

  21 Points

  "The hearse stood outside the block of flats, waiting for the old lady."

  

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  #539

  Maigret and the Enigmatic Letter

  by Georges Simenon

  (1 Review)

  17 Points

  

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  #564

  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  (12 Reviews)

  12 Points

  "To Sherlock Holmes she is always ithe/i woman."

  

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