501 Must-Read Books (Emma Beare, 2006)Thrillers

60 Works 97,443 Books 2,744 Reviews ½ 3.9
From the introduction to "501 Must-Read Books": "The recommendations for inclusion in this comprehensive book were made by a bibliophile and writer with a peerless reputation, but the reviews mostrar mais themselves were compiled by lecturers, writers and book lovers, sharing their pleasure or surprise or even indignation with the rest of us." mostrar menos
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More Work for the Undertaker (1949) de Margery Allingham
Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly (1948) de John Franklin Bardin
Trent's Last Case (1913) de E. C. Bentley
The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) de Anthony Berkeley
Trial and Error (1937) de Anthony Berkeley
The Case of the Abominable Snowman (1941) de Nicholas Blake
Psycho (1959) de Robert Bloch
Double Indemnity (1936) de James M. Cain
He Who Whispers (1946) de John Dickson Carr
Thus Was Adonis Murdered (1981) de Sarah Caudwell
Farewell, My Lovely (1940) de Raymond Chandler
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939) de James Hadley Chase
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) de Agatha Christie
The Woman in White (1859) de Wilkie Collins
Unnatural Exposure (1997) de Patricia Cornwell
The Moving Toyshop (1946) de Edmund Crispin
In the Last Analysis (1964) de Amanda Cross
The Rose at Ten (1964) de Marco Denevi
Vendetta (1990) de Michael Dibdin
The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest (1968) de Peter Dickinson
The Big Clock (1946) de Kenneth Fearing
Blood Sport (1967) de Dick Francis
Quiet as a Nun (1977) de Antonia Fraser
The Sunday Woman (1972) de Carlo Fruttero
Death in the Wrong Room (1947) de Anthony Gilbert
Red Harvest (1929) de Dashiell Hammett
Suicide Excepted (1939) de Cyril Hare
Smilla's Sense of Snow (1992) de Peter Høeg
Bones and Silence (1990) de Reginald Hill
A Rage in Harlem (1957) de Chester Himes
Malice Aforethought (1931) de Francis Iles
Hamlet, Revenge! (1937) de Michael Innes
The Murder Room (2003) de P. D. James
The Sleeping Car Murders (1962) de Sébastien Japrisot
A Pin to See the Peepshow (1934) de F. Tennyson Jesse
Death of My Aunt (1929) de C. H. B. Kitchin
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963) de John le Carré
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907) de Gaston Leroux
The Last Detective (1991) de Peter Lovesey
Final Curtain (1947) de Ngaio Marsh
An Oxford Tragedy (1933) de J. C. Masterman
The Steam Pig (1971) de James McClure
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974) de Nicholas Meyer
How Like an Angel (1962) de Margaret Millar
The Red House Mystery (1922) de A. A. Milne
A Red Death (1991) de Walter Mosley
Deadlock (1984) de Sara Paretsky
Dover One (1964) de Joyce Porter
The Chinese Orange Mystery (1934) de Ellery Queen
The Man in the Net (1956) de Patrick Quentin
A Judgement in Stone (1977) de Ruth Rendell
Gaudy Night (1935) de Dorothy L. Sayers
The Engagement (1933) de Georges Simenon
The Laughing Policeman (1970) de Maj Sjöwall
The Red Box (1937) de Rex Stout
The Man Who Killed Himself (1967) de Julian Symons
The Daughter of Time (1951) de Josephine Tey
Above the Dark Circus (1931) de Hugh Walpole
Born Victim (1962) de Hillary Waugh
The Bride Wore Black (1940) de Cornell Woolrich

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