Genre :: Thriller (15 books)

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  #166

  The Hound of the Baskervilles

  by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  (17 Reviews)

  119 Points

  "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and..."

  

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  #348

  The Secret History

  by Donna Tartt

  (8 Reviews)

  63 Points

  "The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. (Prologue)Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that..."

  

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  #357

  The Da Vinci Code

  by Dan Brown

  (20 Reviews)

  59 Points

  "Robert Langdon awoke slowly."

  

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  #361

  Deliverance

  by James Dickey

  (2 Reviews)

  59 Points

  "Before: It unrolled slowly, forced to show its colors, curling and snapping back whenever one of us turned loose. The whole land was very tense until we put our four steins on its corners and laid..."

  

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  #369

  The Thirty-Nine Steps

  by John Buchan

  (3 Reviews)

  57 Points

  "I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life."

  

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  #372

  The Voyeur

  by Alain Robbe-Grillet

  (1 Review)

  56 Points

  

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  #393

  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

  by Agatha Christie

  (5 Reviews)

  52 Points

  "Mrs Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September—a Thursday."

  

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  #405

  American Psycho

  by Bret Easton Ellis

  (11 Reviews)

  49 Points

  "ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE, is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the..."

  

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  #411

  Kane and Abel

  by Jeffrey Archer

  (3 Reviews)

  47 Points

  "April 18, 1906 - Slonim, Poland - She only stopped screaming when she died."

  

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  #469

  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

  by John le Carré

  (5 Reviews)

  31 Points

  "The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn't dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood's at all."

  

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