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Ten of the greatest literary crime novels

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1. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Jus... - James Hogg

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2. Bleak House (Oxford World's Classics) - Charles Dickens

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3. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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4. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Ot... - Robert Louis Stevenson

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5. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene_I

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6. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

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7. Roseanna - Per Wahlöö,Maj Sjöwall

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8. The Driver's Seat (Penguin Modern Classics) - Muriel Spark

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9. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

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10. Live Flesh - Ruth Rendell

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Posted: 1 year, 6 months ago at Nov 17 22:28

interesting list... i enjoy the crime genre also..

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