1960s
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The Lily and the Lion (1960), Maurice Druon
Rating: 7/10 · Translated from French Accuracy: Grounded in the real Artois inheritance dispute and the…
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The Laughing Policeman (1968), Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
Rating: 9/10 · Translated from Swedish Plot: Nine people are shot dead on a Stockholm bus…
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Endless Night (1967), Agatha Christie
Rating: 8/10 Plot: A restless young man meets an heiress on a piece of land called…
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Traitors to All (1966), Giorgio Scerbanenco
Rating: 7/10 · Translated from Italian; English edition 2015 Plot: A middle-aged couple drown when their…
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1966), Sébastien Japrisot
Rating: 7/10 · Translated from French Plot: A Paris secretary borrows her boss’s car for a…
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Roseanna (1965), Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
Rating: 8/10 · Translated from Swedish Plot: A young woman’s body is dredged from a canal…
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Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965), Chester Himes
Rating: 8/10 Plot: A Back-to-Africa rally is robbed of $87,000, the money vanishes inside a bale…
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In the Heat of the Night (1965), John Ball
RaRating: 7/10 Plot: A Black homicide detective from Pasadena, changing trains in a small Southern town,…
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From Doon with Death (1964), Ruth Rendell
Rating: 6/10 Plot: A plain, respectable housewife is found strangled in a wood, and among her…
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The Chill (1964), Ross Macdonald
Rating: 9/10 Plot: A bride walks out on her husband the day after the wedding, and…
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The Deep Blue Good-by (1964), John D. MacDonald
Rating: 7/10 Plot: Travis McGee agrees to recover a woman’s stolen inheritance, and discovers that the…
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Trap for Cinderella (1962), Sébastien Japrisot
Rating: 8/10 · Translated from French Plot: After a villa fire on the Riviera, the survivor…
