Genre :: Mystery (38 books)

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  #372

  The Voyeur

  by Alain Robbe-Grillet

  (1 Review)

  56 Points

  

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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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  #393

  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

  by Agatha Christie

  (4 Reviews)

  52 Points

  "Mrs Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September—a Thursday."

  

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  #417

  City of Glass

  by Paul Auster

  (1 Review)

  46 Points

  "It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not."

  

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  #422

  The Shadow of the Wind

  by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  (7 Reviews)

  45 Points

  "I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.Todavia recuerdo aquel amanecer en que mi padre me llevo por primera vez a visitar el Cementerio de..."

  

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  #430

  London Fields

  by Martin Amis

  (1 Review)

  42 Points

  "This is a true story but I can't believe it's really happening."

  

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  #434

  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

  by Mark Haddon

  (14 Reviews)

  42 Points

  "It was 7 minutes after midnight."

  

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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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  #451

  The Lovely Bones

  by Alice Sebold

  (11 Reviews)

  37 Points

  "My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. "

  

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  #469

  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

  by John le Carré

  (4 Reviews)

  31 Points

  "The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn't dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood's at all."

  

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