The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction (http://www.allconsuming.net/item/asin/1843536544) (978-1843536543) takes the reader on a guided tour of the mean streets and blind corners that make up the world’s most popular literary genre. The insider’s book recommends over 200 classic crime novels from masterminds Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith to modern hotshots James Elroy and Patricia Cornwell. You’ll investigate gumshoes, spies, spooks, serial killers, forensic females, prying priests and patsies from the past, present, and future. It is complete with extra information on what to read next, all movie adaptations, and illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams…all the evidence that counts. 1-6: Chapter 1 – Reading the Entrails: Origins, motives, sources.
7-19: Chapter 2 – The Golden Age: Classic Mysteries.
20-30: Chapter 3 – Hardboiled and Pulp: Tough guys and tough talk.
31-54: Chapter 4 – Private Eyes: Sleuths and Gumshoes.
55-85: Chapter 5 – Cops: Police procedurals and mavericks.
86-99: Chapter 6 – Professionals: Lawyers, doctors, forensics and others.
100-119: Chapter 7 – Amateurs: Journalists and Innocent Bystanders.
120-137: Chapter 8 – All in the Mind: Matters Psychological.
138-150: Chapter 9 – The Killer inside Me: Serial Killers.
151-164: Chapter 10 – In the Belly of the Beast: Criminal Protagonists.
165-174: Chapter 11 – Organized Crime: Wiseguys and Godfathers.
175-193: Chapter 12 – Crime and Society: Class, Race and Politics.
194-210: Chapter 13 – Espionage: Spies, Spooks and Supercriminals.
211-232: Chapter 14 – Through a Glass Darkly: Historical Crime.
233-249: Chapter 15 – Foreign Bloodshed: Crime in Translation.
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Trent's Last Case
by E. Clerihew Bentley
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The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin Classics)
by John Buchan
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Modern Library Classics)
by G.K. Chesterton
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The Riddle of the Sands (Modern Library Classics)
by Erskine Childers
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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Dodo Press)
by Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle
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Raffles : The Amateur Cracksman
by E W Hornung
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The Tiger in the Smoke
by Margery Allingham
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The Beast Must Die (Pan Classic Crime)
by Nicholas Blake
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Green for Danger (Brand, Christianna)
by Christianna Brand
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Hollow Man
by John Dickson Carr
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
by Agatha Christie
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Love Lies Bleeding
by Edmund Crispin
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The Case of the Turning Tide
by Erle Stanley Gardner
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Hangover Square (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Patrick Hamilton
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Rogue Male (Crime Masterworks)
by Geoffrey Household
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Malice Aforethought
by Francis Iles
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A Surfeit of Lampreys
by Ngaio Marsh
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Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)
by Dorothy L. Sayers
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The Franchise Affair
by Josephine (introduction by Antonia Fraser; illustrations by Paul Hogarth) Tey
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The Asphalt Jungle (Film Ink)
by W.R. Burnett
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (Crime Masterworks)
by James M. Cain
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The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
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No Orchids for Miss Blandish
by James Hadley Chase
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The Moon in the Gutter
by David Goodis
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Red Harvest (Crime Masterworks)
by Dashiell Hammett
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Build My Gallows High (Film Ink Series)
by Geoffrey Homes
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The Galton Case (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by Ross Macdonald
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Kiss Me, Deadly (Mike Hammer Series)
by Mickey Spillane
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The Grifters
by Jim Thompson
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The Bride Wore Black
by Cornell Woolrich
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Case Histories: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
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Purple Cane Road
by James Lee Burke
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The Final Detail
by Harlan Coben
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City of Bones (Harry Bosch)
by Michael Connelly
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The Last Detective
by Robert Crais
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Calendar Girl (A Five Star Title)
by Stella Duffy
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Steppin' on a Rainbow (Kinky Friedman Novels (Paperback))
by Kinky Friedman
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S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
by Sue Grafton
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The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
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Gravedigger (A Brandstetter Mystery)
by Joseph Hansen
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A Season for the Dead
by David Hewson
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Sunset and Sawdust
by Joe R. Lansdale
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Prayers For Rain
by Dennis Lehane
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One Fearful Yellow Eye
by John D. MacDonald
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The Moving Target
by Ross Macdonald
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Murder at the Nightwood Bar: A Kate Delafield Mystery
by Katherine V. Forrest
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Sex Dolls
by Reggie Nadelson
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Blacklist
by Sara Paretsky
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Stone Cold (Jesse Stone)
by Robert B. Parker
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Hell to Pay
by George P. Pelecanos
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