Genre :: Mystery (38 books)

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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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  #251

  The Magus

  by John Fowles

  (4 Reviews)

  83 Points

  "I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that..."

  

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  #269

  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

  by Patrick Suskind

  (11 Reviews)

  78 Points

  "In eighteenth century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages."

  

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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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  #346

  The Riddle of the Sands

  by Erskine Childers

  (2 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "I have read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude - save for a few black faces - have made it a rule to dress regularly for dinner in order to maintain..."

  

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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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  #357

  The Da Vinci Code

  by Dan Brown

  (20 Reviews)

  59 Points

  "Robert Langdon awoke slowly."

  

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  #363

  Snow Falling on Cedars

  by David Guterson

  (6 Reviews)

  58 Points

  "The accused man, Kabuo Miyamoto, sat proudly upright with a rigid grace, his palms placed softly on the defendant's table - the posture of a man who has detached himself insofar as this is possible..."

  

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  #369

  The Thirty-Nine Steps

  by John Buchan

  (3 Reviews)

  57 Points

  "I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life."

  

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