Genre :: Mystery (38 books)

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  #43

  Rebecca

  by Daphne du Maurier

  (12 Reviews)

  333 Points

  "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

  

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  #98

  Bleak House

  by Charles Dickens

  (8 Reviews)

  189 Points

  "London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall."

  

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  #116

  The Name of the Rose

  by Umberto Eco

  (12 Reviews)

  166 Points

  "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

  

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  #118

  The Woman in White

  by Wilkie Collins

  (6 Reviews)

  164 Points

  "This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."

  

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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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  #135

  Possession

  by A.S. Byatt

  (6 Reviews)

  142 Points

  "The book was thick and black and covered with dust."

  

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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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  #166

  The Hound of the Baskervilles

  by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  (17 Reviews)

  119 Points

  "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and..."

  

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  #228

  My Name is Red

  by Orhan Pamuk

  (2 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well."

  

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  #236

  Going native

  by Stephen Wright

  (3 Reviews)

  88 Points

  

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