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501 Must-Read Books - Thrillers

Books listed in the "Thrillers" section of 501 Must-Read Books, which actually includes mysteries, crime, suspense, detective, noir, etc. as well as thrillers.

Alphabetical by author.

NB: Rosaura a Las Diez (#17) is listed in the book under its English translation, Rose at Ten.

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1. More Work for the Undertaker
by Margery Allingham
  
2.
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 Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly
by John Franklin Bardin
  
3.
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 Trent's Last Case
by E. Clerihew Bentley
  
4. Trial and Error
by Anthony Berkeley
  
5. The Poisoned Chocolates Case (A Roger Sheringham Case)
by Anthony Berkeley
  
6. The Beast Must Die (Pan Classic Crime)
by Nicholas Blake
  
7. Psycho
by Robert Bloch
  
8. Double Indemnity
by James M. Cain
  
9. Thus Was Adonis Murdered
by Sarah Caudwell
  
10. Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
  
11.
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 No Orchids for Miss Blandish
by James Hadley Chase
  
12. Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
by Agatha Christie
  
13. The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
by Wilkie Collins
  
14. Unnatural Exposure
by Patricia Cornwell
  
15. The Moving Toyshop
by Edmund Crispin
  
16. In the Last Analysis (Kate Fansler Novels (Paperback))
by Amanda Cross
  
17. Rosaura a Las Diez
by Marco Denevi
  
18. Vendetta: An Aurelio Zen Mystery
by Michael Dibdin
  
19.
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 The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest
by Peter Dickinson
  
20. He Who Whispers (A Gideon Fell Novel)
by John Dickson Carr
  
21. The Big Clock (New York Review Books Classics)
by Kenneth Fearing
  
22. Blood Sport
by Dick Francis
  
23. Quiet As a Nun (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
by Antonia Fraser
  
24. Sunday Woman
by Carlo Fruttero
  
25.
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 Death in the Wrong Room
by Anthony Gilbert
  
26. Red Harvest
by Dashiell Hammett
  
27. Suicide Excepted (Inspector Mallett Mystery)
by Cyril Hare
  
28. Bones and Silence (Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries (Paperback))
by Reginald Hill
  
29. A Rage in Harlem
by Chester Himes
  
30. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Harvill Panther)
by Peter Hoeg
  
31. Malice Aforethought
by Francis Iles
  
32. Hamlet, Revenge! (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
by Michael Innes
  
33. The Murder Room: A Novel
by P.D. James
  
34. The Sleeping Car Murders
by Sebastien Japrisot
  
35. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
by John le Carre
  
36. The Mystery of the Yellow Room
by Gaston Leroux
  
37. The Last Detective
by Peter Lovesey
  
38. Final Curtain
by Ngaio Marsh
  
39. An Oxford Tragedy
by J. C. Masterman
  
40.
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 The Steam Pig (Crime Club)
by James McCLure
  
41. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. (Norton Paperback)
by Nicholas Meyer
  
42. How Like an Angel
by Margaret Millar
  
43. The Red House Mystery
by A. A. Milne
  
44. A Red Death
by Walter Mosley
  
45. Deadlock
by Sara Paretsky
  
46.
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 Dover One (Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover Novels)
by Joyce Porter
  
47. The Chinese Orange Mystery  
48. A Judgement in Stone
by Ruth Rendell
  
49. Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)
by Dorothy L. Sayers
  
50.
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 Mr. Hire's Engagement
by Simenon
  
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Created by The Subjected Reader on Sep 08, 2008.