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The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Leavenworth Case
by Anna Katharine Green
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The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
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The Crime at Black Dudley
by Margery Allingham
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The Patient in Room 18
by Mignon G. Eberhart
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The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
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The Conjure-Man Dies
by Rudolph Fisher
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A Man Lay Dead
by Ngaio Marsh
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Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers
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The Three Coffins
by John Dickson Carr
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Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
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A Coffin for Dimitrios
by Eric Ambler
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The Rich, Underappreciated History of Mystery Writers of Color
by Rachel Howzell Hall
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Double Indemnity
by James M. Cain
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If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester B. Himes
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In a Lonely Place
by Dorothy B. Hughes
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The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
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Beat Not the Bones
by Charlotte Jay
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Casino Royale
by Ian Fleming
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A Kiss Before Dying
by Ira Levin
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The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
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Beast in View
by Margaret Millar
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The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
by John le Carré
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The Honjin Murders
by Seishi Yokomizo
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Where Are the Children?
by Mary Higgins Clark
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The Shining
by Stephen King
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The Last Good Kiss
by James Crumley
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The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
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The Hunt for Red October
by Tom Clancy
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A Dark-Adapted Eye
by Barbara Vine
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The Decagon House Murders
by Yukito Ayatsuji
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The Silence of the Lambs
by Thomas Harris
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Devil in a Blue Dress
by Walter Mosley
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Mean Spirit
by Linda Hogan
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Postmortem
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
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Faceless Killers
by Henning Mankell
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Dead Time
by Eleanor Taylor Bland
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
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Smilla’s Sense of Snow
by Peter Høeg
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When Death Comes Stealing
by Valerie Wilson Wesley
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Fade Away
by Harlan Coben
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Killing Floor
by Lee Child
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Lady Joker
by Kaoru Takamura
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Morituri
by Yasmina Khadra
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Out
by Natsuo Kirino
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Inner City Blues
by Paula L. Woods
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A Place of Execution
by Val McDermid
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Those Bones Are Not My Child
by Toni Cade Bambara
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Blanche Passes Go
by Barbara Neely
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Death of a Red Heroine
by Qiu Xiaolong
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The Redbreast
by Jo Nesbø
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Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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The Surgeon
by Tess Gerritsen
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The Emperor of Ocean Park
by Stephen L. Carter
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Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
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The Ice Princess
by Camilla Läckberg
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2666
by Roberto Bolaño
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Case Histories
by Kate Atkinson
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The Devotion of Suspect X
by Keigo Higashino
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
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The Lincoln Lawyer
by Michael Connelly
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Snakeskin Shamisen
by Naomi Hirahara
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Queenpin
by Megan Abbott
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What the Dead Know
by Laura Lippman
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by Olga Tokarczuk
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Wife of the Gods
by Kwei Quartey
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Bury Your Dead
by Louise Penny
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Faithful Place
by Tana French
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The Plotters
by Un-su Kim
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The Sound of Things Falling
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
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The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
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Six Four
by Hideo Yokoyama
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Ordinary Grace
by William Kent Krueger
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Big Little Lies
by Liane Moriarty
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Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
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Land of Shadows
by Rachel Howzell Hall
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The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Bluebird, Bluebird
by Attica Locke
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Hollywood Homicide
by Kellye Garrett
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
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The Widows of Malabar Hill
by Sujata Massey
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Miracle Creek
by Angie Kim
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The Need
by Helen Phillips
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The Other Americans
by Laila Lalami
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The Turn of the Key
by Ruth Ware
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Your House Will Pay
by Steph Cha
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Blacktop Wasteland
by S.A. Cosby
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Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
by Deepa Anappara
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Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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When No One Is Watching
by Alyssa Cole
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Winter Counts
by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
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Survivor’s Guilt
by Robyn Gigl
This project is led by Lucy Feldman, Annabel Gutterman, Megan McCluskey, and Meg Zukin, with writing, reporting, and additional editing by Eliza Berman, Tessa Berenson Rogers, Kelly Conniff, Leslie Dickstein, Eliana Dockterman, Mahita Gajanan, Cady Lang, Lily Rothman, Rachel Sonis, Armani Syed, Karl Vick, Elijah Wolfson, Lucas Wittmann, and Laura Zornosa; photography editing by Whitney Matewe; art direction by Katie Kalupson and Victor Williams; video by Brian Braganza, Andrew Johnson, Jeannie Kopstein, and Sam McPeak; production by Nadia Suleman; illustrations by Michelle Urra for TIME.