1970s
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Dance Hall of the Dead (1973), Tony Hillerman
Rating: 7/10 Plot: A Zuni boy is murdered and his Navajo friend disappears just before a…
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Nada (1972), Jean-Patrick Manchette
Rating: 7/10 · Translated from French Plot: A ragged group of anarchists kidnaps the American ambassador…
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The Locked Room (1972), Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
Rating: 8/10 · Translated from Swedish Plot: Martin Beck, back at work after a shooting, investigates…
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), P.D. James
Rating: 8/10 Plot: A young woman inherits a failing detective agency and takes on its first…
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Equal Danger (1971), Leonardo Sciascia
Rating: 8/10 · Translated from Italian (original title Il contesto) Plot: Judges are being killed one…
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The Day of the Jackal (1971), Frederick Forsyth
Rating: 8/10 Plot: Right-wing French militants hire a foreign professional to assassinate de Gaulle, and a…
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Shroud for a Nightingale (1971), P.D. James
RRating: 8/10 Plot: At a nurses’ training school, a student dies horribly during a teaching demonstration,…
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The Underground Man (1971), Ross Macdonald
Rating: 8/10 Plot: A father searching for his own missing father is murdered, his young son…
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1970), George V. Higgins
Rating: 8/10 Plot: An ageing Boston gunrunner facing prison weighs whether to inform, while the people…
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Master and Commander (1969), Patrick O’Brian
RaRating: 9/10 Accuracy: Exceptional; O’Brian built many episodes on real naval actions, including Lord Cochrane’s capture…
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Fire from Heaven (1969), Mary Renault
Rating: 8/10 Accuracy: Faithful to the ancient sources on Alexander’s youth, with interpretation where they are…
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The Abyss (1968), Marguerite Yourcenar
Rating: 8/10 · Translated from French (original title L’Œuvre au noir); English edition 1976 Accuracy: Deeply…
