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Novels

1/1/2020

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Agatha Christie---the greatest mystery and suspense writer of the 20th Century
Agatha Christie's "Other" Novels​
​Agatha Christie: Beyond the Puzzle
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Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library, I
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Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library, II
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Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library, III
Children of Miss Marple, Amateur Sleuths

Bill Crider---author and scholar of the mystery genre.​
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Bill Crider's College-Professor Sleuth
Mississippi Vivian by Bill Crider.
Booked for a Hanging by Bill Crider

Patricia Highsmith---startlingly original suspense novels
The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith
​The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith and Jim Thompson.
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Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by Patricia Highsmith.
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

Stephen King---America's master storyteller
​Did Stephen King take a lesson from Bram Stoker?
On Writing by Stephen King.
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The Outsider by Stephen King
Joyland by Stephen King. Lessons from a master.​
​Elevation by Stephen King

Joe R. Lansdale---Texas noir
The Thicket by Joe R. Lansdale​
Sunset and Sawdust by Joe R. Lansdale

Jim Thompson---the greatest of the paperback original authors
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Patricia Highsmith and Jim Thompson.
The Kill-Off by Jim Thompson.
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After Dark My Sweet by Jim Thompson
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Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson
How Jim Thompson Learned Crime-Writing
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How Writers Used to Get Started.
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Jim Thompson's Biography
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Thompson's Colleagues
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Texas by the Tail by Jim Thompson

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Charles Willeford---among the best paperback original authors.
The Woman Chaser by Charles Willeford
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The Difference by Charles Willeford​

Charles Williams---most under-appreciated paperback original author.

Nothing in Her Way by Charles Williams
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NIHW & River Girl by Charles Williams
​A Touch of Death by Charles Williams
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Dead Calm by Charles Williams
The Hot Spot by Charles Williams
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The Concrete Flamingo by Charles Williams
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Aground by Charles Williams

Cornell Woolrich---the founder of noir.
Short Stories by Cornell Woolrich
Penguin's Cornell Woolrich omnibus
Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich
No Man of Her Own (1950)
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Mississippi Mermaid by Francois Truffaut

Miscellaneous Authors (most recent blog post first)
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The Doctor by Lisa Stone
The Suspects by Katherine Johnson
Oblivion by Peter Abrahams
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Out of the Black by John Rector
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Twisted City by Jason Starr
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The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips
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A Dangerous Man by Robert Crais
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The Snatch by Bill Pronzini
Dangerous Habits by Susan Hunter
​I Want You Gone by Miranda Rijks
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Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
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Inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper
The Girl Who Lived by Christopher Greyson
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The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
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The Reaper by Peter Lovesey
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
The Burglar by Thomas Perry
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki by Haruki Murakami
Samuel Fuller, writer, soldier, filmmaker
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Hammett's Digressions
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Books to Die For
The Triumph of the Thriller by Patrick Anderson
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