Mystery
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Anatomy of a Murder (1958), Robert Traver
Rating: 7/10 Plot: A small-town lawyer defends an army lieutenant who shot the man he says…
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That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana (1957), Carlo Emilio Gadda
Rating: 8/10 · Translated from Italian Plot: In 1927 Rome, a jewel theft and then a…
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4.50 from Paddington (1957), Agatha Christie
Rating: 7/10 Plot: A passenger sees a woman strangled in a train running alongside hers. No…
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Cop Hater (1956), Ed McBain
Rating: 6/10 Plot: In a stifling summer, someone starts shooting detectives from the 87th Precinct, and…
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The Rats of Montsouris (1955), Léo Malet
Rating: 6/10 · Translated from French; English edition decades later Plot: Private eye Nestor Burma is…
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955), Patricia Highsmith
Rating: 9/10 Plot: A simple errand, fetching a rich man’s son home from Italy, curdles into…
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The Living and the Dead (1954), Boileau-Narcejac
Rating: 7/10 · Translated from French Plot: A former policeman is hired to watch an old…
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The Long Goodbye (1953), Raymond Chandler
Rating: 10/10 Plot: Two cases, a friend’s flight to Mexico and a drunk novelist’s troubles, are…
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She Who Was No More (1952), Boileau-Narcejac
Rating: 8/10 · Translated from French Plot: A travelling salesman and his mistress drown his wife,…
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The Killer Inside Me (1952), Jim Thompson
Rating: 8/10 Plot: A small-town deputy’s hidden compulsion breaks the surface after one act of violence,…
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Kiss Me, Deadly (1952), Mickey Spillane
Rating: 5/10 Plot: Mike Hammer picks up a terrified woman on a night highway, survives an…
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The Inugami Clan (1951), Seishi Yokomizo
Rating: 7/10 · Translated from Japanese; English edition 2003 Plot: A silk magnate’s will sets his…
