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

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.

(found at: http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2007/05/ones-that-got-away.html)

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1. About the Author: A Novel
by John Colapinto
  
2. Anatomy of a Murder
by Robert Traver
  
3.
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 Any Cold Jordan
by David Bottoms
  
4. Before I Die
by Lionel White
  
5. Big City, Bad Blood: A Novel
by Sean Chercover
  
6. Blackburn: A Novel
by Bradley Denton
  
7. The Black Mass of Brother Springer
by Charles Ray Willeford
  
8.
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 Blood Marks
by Bill Crider
  
9.
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 Bodies are Dust
by P.J. Wolfson
  
10. Bodies Electric
by Colin Harrison
  
11. The Bridge of Sighs: A Novel
by Olen Steinhauer
  
12.
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 The Burnt Orange Heresy
by Charles Willeford
  
13. California Fire and Life
by Don Winslow
  
14. Castles burning (A Jacob Asch mystery)
by Arthur Lyons
  
15. The Caves of Steel (Robot Series)
by Isaac Asimov
  
16. The Chill
by Ross Macdonald
  
17. Citizen Vince: A Novel
by Jess Walter
  
18.
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 A Clod of Wayward Marl
by Rick DeMarinis
  
19. Coffin's Got the Dead Guy on the Inside
by Keith Snyder
  
20. Cotton Comes to Harlem (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by Chester Himes
  
21. Crow in Stolen Colors (Alaska Panhandle Mysteries)
by Marcia Simpson
  
22.
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 Daddy Cool
by Donald Goines
  
23. A Darker Place
by Laurie R. King
  
24. The Dark Fields
by Alan Glynn
  
25. Dark Ride (Dark Ride)
by Kent Harrington
  
26. The Deadly Percheron
by John Franklin Bardin
  
27. The Depths of the Forest (Eurocrime series)
by Eugenio Fuentes
  
28. The Distance : A Crime Novel Introducing Billy Nichols
by Eddie Muller
  
29.
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 Don't Cry for Me : A Mystery
by William Campbell Gault
  
30. The Doorbell Rang (The Rex Stout Library)
by Rex Stout
  
31.
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 Dover Beach
by Richard Bowker
  
32. Drama City
by George Pelecanos
  
33. Early Autumn
by Robert Parker
  
34. Eight Million Ways to Die (Matt Scudder Mystery)
by Lawrence Block
  
35. An Embarrassment of Corpses
by Alan Beechey
  
36. Every Dead Thing
by John Connolly
  
37. Fast One
by Paul Cain
  
38. The Fiend in Human : A Novel (Edward Whitty, 1)
by John MacLachlan Gray
  
39.
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 Finding Maubee
by A. H. Z. Carr
  
40. The FRANCHISE AFFAIR
by Josephine Tey
  
41. Fugitive Moon
by Ron Faust
  
42.
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 Funeral in Berlin
by Len Deighton
  
43. Get Carter
by Ted Lewis
  
44. Gramercy Park
by Paula Cohen
  
45. The Guards: A Novel
by Ken Bruen
  
46.
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 Gun Before Butter
by Nicolas Freeling
  
47. Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book)
by Jonathan Lethem
  
48.
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 Hard Rain Falling
by Don Carpenter
  
49. The Havana Room
by Colin Harrison
  
50.
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 High Tide
by P. M. Hubbard
  
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Created by The Subjected Reader on Jul 09, 2007.