Secret Agent X-9
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.41
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
"L'abilità artistica di Raymond ha aiutato a rendere il 1934 un anno da ricordare come tra i miglio…
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1. The Woman in White
By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet
4.01
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more
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- mystery
"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
2. The Secret Agent
By: Joseph Conrad
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her… read more
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- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- fiction
"Bad world for poor people."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"To the destruction of what is."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
3. The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.19
Format: 206 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
"The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"It symbolizes neither one nor the other, but a mixture of the two without priority"-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser entendido. Eso es lo que nos hambre hombres."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
4. The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)
By: Colin Dexter
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Dead of Jericho is Colin Dexter's fifth outing featuring the popular detective, Inspector Morse… read more
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- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- fiction
"He sighed and knew that life was full of ‘if only’ for everyone"-Colin Dexter, The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)
"Walters looked quizzically at Morse, who sat reading one of the glossy 'porno' magazines he had brought from upstairs. "You still sex-mad, I see, Morse," said the surgeon. "I don't seem to be able to…"-Colin Dexter, The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)
5. Brighton Rock
By: J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has kill… read more
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- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- fiction
6. Our Man in Havana
By: Graham Greene
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more
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- mystery
- thriller
- fiction
7. The Mysterious Island (Extraordinary Voyages, #12)
By: Jules Verne , Caleb Carr , Jordan Stump
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Five Union prisoners escape from the siege of Richmond in a balloon, are blown off course and crash… read more
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- fiction
8. XPD
By: Len Deighton
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
June 11, 1940 - where is Winston Churchill? A private aircraft takes off from a small town in centr… read more
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- mystery
- thriller
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9. Double Indemnity
By: James M. Cain
4.06
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, o… read more
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- american
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
"I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake"-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity
"I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman."-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity
"They've committed a *murder*! And it's not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They're stuck with each other and they got to ride all the way to the end of …"-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity
"There's a shark. Following the ship.' I tried not to look, but couldn't help it. I saw a flash of dirty white down in the green. We walked back to the deck chairs. Walter, we'll have to wait. Till th…"-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity
10. A Caribbean Mystery (Miss Marple, #10)
By: Agatha Christie
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is no rest or relaxation for Miss Marple. Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie's most appealing… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
11. The Captain and the Enemy (Penguin Classics)
By: Graham Greene , John Auchard
3.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Victor Baxter is a young boy when a secretive stranger known simply as “the Captain” takes him from… read more
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- fiction
12. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more
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- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- fiction
13. The Prisoner of Zenda
By: Anthony Hope
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anthony Hope's swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from… read more
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14. Service of All the Dead (Inspector Morse, #4)
By: Colin Dexter
3.57
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
"[MORSE IS] THE MOST PRICKLY, CONCEITED, AND GENUINELY BRILLIANT DETECTIVE SINCE HERCULE POIROT." -… read more
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15. The Valley of Fear
By: Arthur Conan Doyle , David Timson
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Audio CD
The Sherlock Holmes series read in unabridged form by David Timson is widely regarded as one of the… read more
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16. The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
A couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--become the objects of Marlowe's i… read more
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17. Miss Fury: Sensational Sundays, 1944-1949
By: Tarpe Mills
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Catfights and crossdressers, mad scientists and Gestapo agents with swastikas branding irons -- it'… read more
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18. Jamaica Inn
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.89
Format: 320 pages, ebook
The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more
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- mystery
- thriller
- fiction
"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
19. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #22)
By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Fraser
3.00
Format: 81 pages, Audio CD
A dentist's suspicious death leads Poirot to drill the good doctor's patients, partners, lovers, an… read more
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20. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Richard Kopley
3.32
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with it… read more
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21. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
By: Natasha Pulley
4.29
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, atmospheric narrative that takes the reader on an unexpected journey through Victorian … read more
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22. The Midwich Cuckoos
By: John Wyndham
3.91
Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant… read more
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- fiction
"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, wom…"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
23. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.18
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more
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- thriller
- crime
- fiction
24. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
25. With a Mind to Kill
By: Anthony Horowitz
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and wh… read more
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- thriller
- crime
- fiction
26. Murder on the Christmas Express
By: Alexandra Benedict
3.16
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Eighteen passengers. Seven stops. One killer.In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the sleeper train… read more
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- thriller
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- fiction
27. Strangers on a Train
By: Patricia Highsmith
3.73
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more
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- fiction
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- thriller
- crime
"The word “marriage"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I know that Southern redhead type,"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
28. From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2)
By: Alan Partridge
4.36
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Alan returns to podcasting, offering his unique perspective on life’s big questions, the hot-button… read more
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- fiction
"I do so love books. I can’t think of many truer pleasures than settling into a fat armchair, letting my mouth fall open, and reading a novel. And I mean really reading one – not just skim-reading it …"-Alan Partridge, From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2)
29. Secret Agent X-9
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.41
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
"L'abilità artistica di Raymond ha aiutato a rendere il 1934 un anno da ricordare come tra i miglio… read more
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- american
- pulp
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- cartoon
30. The Left Handed Sleeper
By: Ted Willis
3.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
When Christine Ritchie's husband Mark, who is a Member of Parliament, disappears he is said to be a… read more
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31. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue att… read more
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