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
  2. 2.
    Anatomy of a Murder
    by Robert Traver
  3. 3.
    ?
    Any Cold Jordan
    by David Bottoms
  4. 4.
    Before I Die
    by Lionel White
  5. 5.
    Big City, Bad Blood: A Novel
    by Sean Chercover
  6. 6.
    Blackburn: A Novel
    by Bradley Denton
  7. 7.
    The Black Mass of Brother Springer
    by Charles Ray Willeford
  8. 8.
    ?
    Blood Marks
    by Bill Crider
  9. 9.
    ?
    Bodies are Dust
    by P.J. Wolfson
  10. 10.
    Bodies Electric: A Novel
    by Colin Harrison
  11. 11.
    The Bridge of Sighs: A Novel
    by Olen Steinhauer
  12. 12.
    The Burnt Orange Heresy
    by Charles Willeford
  13. 13.
    California Fire and Life
    by Don Winslow
  14. 14.
    Castles burning (A Jacob Asch mystery)
    by Arthur Lyons
  15. 15.
    The Caves of Steel (Robot Series)
    by Isaac Asimov
  16. 16.
    The Chill
    by Ross Macdonald
  17. 17.
    Citizen Vince: A Novel
    by Jess Walter
  18. 18.
    ?
    A Clod of Wayward Marl
    by Rick DeMarinis
  19. 19.
    Coffin's Got the Dead Guy on the Inside
    by Keith Snyder
  20. 20.
    Cotton Comes to Harlem (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
    by Chester Himes
  21. 21.
    Crow in Stolen Colors (Alaska Panhandle Mysteries)
    by Marcia Simpson
  22. 22.
    ?
    Daddy Cool
    by Donald Goines
  23. 23.
    A Darker Place
    by Laurie R. King
  24. 24.
    The Dark Fields
    by Alan Glynn
  25. 25.
    Dark Ride
    by Kent Harrington
  26. 26.
    The Deadly Percheron
    by John Franklin Bardin
  27. 27.
    The Depths of the Forest (Eurocrime series)
    by Eugenio Fuentes
  28. 28.
    The Distance: A Crime Novel Introducing Billy Nichols
    by Eddie Muller
  29. 29.
    ?
    Don't Cry for Me : A Mystery
    by William Campbell Gault
  30. 30.
    The Doorbell Rang (Nero Wolfe Mysteries)
    by Rex Stout
  31. 31.
    ?
    Dover Beach
    by Richard Bowker
  32. 32.
    Drama City
    by George Pelecanos
  33. 33.
    Early Autumn
    by Robert B. Parker
  34. 34.
    Eight Million Ways to Die (Matt Scudder Mystery)
    by Lawrence Block
  35. 35.
    An Embarrassment of Corpses
    by Alan Beechey
  36. 36.
    Every Dead Thing
    by John Connolly
  37. 37.
    Fast One
    by Paul Cain
  38. 38.
    The Fiend in Human: A Novel (Edward Whitty, 1)
    by John MacLachlan Gray
  39. 39.
    ?
    Finding Maubee
    by A. H. Z. Carr
  40. 40.
    The Franchise Affair
    by Josephine Tey
  41. 41.
    Fugitive Moon
    by Ron Faust
  42. 42.
    ?
    Funeral in Berlin
    by Len Deighton
  43. 43.
    Get Carter
    by Ted Lewis
  44. 44.
    Gramercy Park
    by Paula Cohen
  45. 45.
    The Guards: A Novel (Jack Taylor)
    by Ken Bruen
  46. 46.
    ?
    Gun Before Butter
    by Nicolas Freeling
  47. 47.
    Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book)
    by Jonathan Lethem
  48. 48.
    ?
    Hard Rain Falling
    by Don Carpenter
  49. 49.
    The Havana Room
    by Colin Harrison
  50. 50.
    ?
    High Tide
    by P. M. Hubbard

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Created by bah on Jul 09, 2007.
 

Comments

tassini

Untitled — 4 years ago

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

Jul 09, 05:33PM | 1 comment | Reply to this



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