The Rap Sheet's "One Book Project: Underappreciated Crime, Mystery & Thriller Fiction"

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This list was compiled by The Rap Sheet (http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/), a blog devoted to crime fiction. They asked over 100 "crime novelists, book critics, and bloggers…to choose the one crime/mystery/thriller novel that they thought had been most unjustly overlooked, criminally forgotten, or underappreciated over the years." To read their comments (and discover who chose which books) go here: http://therapsheet-onebook.blogspot.com/.

The list is alphabetical by title.

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  1. 1.
    About the Author: A Novel
    by John Colapinto

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    Anatomy of a Murder
    by Robert Traver

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    Any Cold Jordan
    by David Bottoms

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    Before I Die
    by Lionel White

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    Big City, Bad Blood: A Novel
    by Sean Chercover

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    Blackburn: A Novel
    by Bradley Denton

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    The Black Mass of Brother Springer
    by Charles Ray Willeford

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    Blood Marks
    by Bill Crider

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    Bodies are Dust
    by P.J. Wolfson

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    Bodies Electric
    by Colin Harrison

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  11. 11.
    The Bridge of Sighs: A Novel
    by Olen Steinhauer

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    The Burnt Orange Heresy
    by Charles Willeford

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  13. 13.
    California Fire and Life
    by Don Winslow

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  14. 14.
    Castles burning (A Jacob Asch mystery)
    by Arthur Lyons

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  15. 15.
    The Caves of Steel (Robot Series)
    by Isaac Asimov

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    The Chill
    by Ross Macdonald

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    Citizen Vince: A Novel
    by Jess Walter

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    A Clod of Wayward Marl
    by Rick DeMarinis

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    Coffin's Got the Dead Guy on the Inside
    by Keith Snyder

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    Cotton Comes to Harlem (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
    by Chester Himes

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    Crow in Stolen Colors (Alaska Panhandle Mysteries)
    by Marcia Simpson

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    Daddy Cool
    by Donald Goines

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    A Darker Place
    by Laurie R. King

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    The Dark Fields
    by Alan Glynn

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  25. 25.
    Dark Ride (Dark Ride)
    by Kent Harrington

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    The Deadly Percheron
    by John Franklin Bardin

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    The Depths of the Forest (Eurocrime series)
    by Eugenio Fuentes

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  28. 28.
    The Distance : A Crime Novel Introducing Billy Nichols
    by Eddie Muller

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    Don't Cry for Me : A Mystery
    by William Campbell Gault

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    The Doorbell Rang (The Rex Stout Library)
    by Rex Stout

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    Dover Beach
    by Richard Bowker

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    Drama City
    by George Pelecanos

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    Early Autumn
    by Robert Parker

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  34. 34.
    Eight Million Ways to Die (Matt Scudder Mystery)
    by Lawrence Block

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    An Embarrassment of Corpses
    by Alan Beechey

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    Every Dead Thing
    by John Connolly

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    Fast One
    by Paul Cain

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    The Fiend in Human : A Novel (Edward Whitty, 1)
    by John MacLachlan Gray

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    Finding Maubee
    by A. H. Z. Carr

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    The FRANCHISE AFFAIR
    by Josephine Tey

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    Fugitive Moon
    by Ron Faust

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    Funeral in Berlin
    by Len Deighton

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    Get Carter
    by Ted Lewis

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    Gramercy Park
    by Paula Cohen

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    The Guards: A Novel
    by Ken Bruen

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    Gun Before Butter
    by Nicolas Freeling

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    Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book)
    by Jonathan Lethem

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    Hard Rain Falling
    by Don Carpenter

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    The Havana Room
    by Colin Harrison

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    High Tide
    by P. M. Hubbard

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Comments

Untitled — 2 years ago

Thanks for the list. You do keep coming up with good ones!