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Cape Fear by John D. MacDonald
Category: Fiction | Series: Murder Room Ser.
This dark psychological thriller was first published in 1957 as THE EXECUTIONERS. First filmed as CAPE FEAR in 1962, it was subsequently turned into a movie by Martin Scorsese in 1991, starring Robert De Niro as convicted rapist Max Cady, who stalks the family of his defence lawyer after discovering tha ...Show more
Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Murder Room Ser.
Ned Beaumont is a tall, thin, moustache-wearing, TB-ridden, drinking, gambling, hanger-on to the political boss of a corrupt Eastern city. Nevertheless, like every Hammett hero (and like Hammett himself), he has an unbreakable, if idiosyncratic moral code. Ned's boss wants to better himself with a thoro ...Show more
Love in Amsterdam - Van der Valk Book 1 by Nicolas Freeling
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Murder Room Ser.
'Freeling's Inspector Van der Valk is less rugged than Rebus, less parsonical than Dalgliesh, more Morse than Frost, and more Maigret than any of them. Marvellous' - Anita Brookner A woman, Elsa, is brutally murdered in her Amsterdam apartment. Her ex-lover, Martin, is seen outside the building around ...Show more
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Classic | Series: Murder Room Ser.
The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also called a shirt a shoit, he didn't think anything of it. Until he went there and his client, the only honest man in Poisonville, was murdered. Then the Op decided to stay to punish the guilty. And that mea ...Show more
The Burnt Orange Heresy by Charles Willeford
Category: Fiction | Series: Murder Room Ser.
A fast-paced, twisty thriller about an art heist that spins out of control with murderous results... Soon to be a major film. 'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' Elmore Leonard Art critic James Figueras is a psychotic, an amoral unrepentant killer. Out to make a lasting name fo ...Show more
The Case of the Duplicate Daughter - A Perry Mason Novel by Erle Stanley Gardner
Category: Fiction | Series: Murder Room Ser.
'For fans of classic hard-boiled whodunits, this is a time machine back to an exuberant era of snappy patter, stakeouts, and double-crosses' LA Times 'Kingpin among the mystery writers' New York Times Muriell Gilman left her father at the breakfast table while she cooked seconds of sausage and eggs. W ...Show more
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Murder Room Ser.
Miss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her. They die - violently. Is she the victim of a family curse? The short, squat, utterly unsentimental Continental Op, the best private detective aro ...Show more
The Maltese Falcon (PB) by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Murder Room Ser.
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both ...Show more
The Secret of Elizabeth by Vera Caspary
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Murder Room Ser.
A beautiful woman - with no memory - and the people who claim to know her may not have her best interests at heart... 'Vera Caspary is an expert at suspense and suspicion' New York Times Kate and Allan Royce are driving home from a party in Westport, Connecticut one night when they see a girl in a bea ...Show more
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