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Mysteries Through The Decades

July 21, 2010 | cpl_admin

1930s

The Maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Fer-de-lance : a Nero Wolfe mystery by Rex Stout ; introduction by Loren D. Estleman

1940s

The postman always rings twice by James M. Cain

Hand in glove by Ngaio Marsh

1950s

Cop hater by Ed McBain

Strangers on a train by Patricia Highsmith

1960s

The clocks by Agatha Christie

The crying of lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

1970s

A is for alibi by Sue Grafton

The Godwulf manuscript by Robert B. Parker

1980s

The monkey's raincoat by Robert Crais

Indemnity only : a novel by Sara Paretsky

1990s

One for the money by Janet Evanovich

A drink before the war by Dennis Lehane

2000s

A cold day in paradise by Steve Hamilton

The pact by Jennifer Sturman

2010s

The taken by Inger Ash Wolfe

A hundred thousand dragons by Dolores Gordon-Smith