Mystery
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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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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…
