Books: What to Know
Thrillers Worth Knowing
The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
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2,448 mystery & crime
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The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories
Two vagabonds claim a kingdom, a traveler finds a village of the dead, and the colonial heat breeds restless ghosts.
Rudyard Kipling · collection
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The Phantom Death, etc.
William Clark Russell · short story
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The Phantom Friend
Margaret Sutton · novel
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The phantom hunter; or, love after death
Edward Sylvester Ellis · novel
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The Phantom of the Opera
The Opera House has a phantom, a basement lake, and an employee who refuses to retire.
Gaston Leroux · novel
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The Phantom Town Mystery
Carol Norton · novel
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The phantom violin
Roy J. Snell · novel
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The Phantom Yacht
Carol Norton · novel
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The Photographer's Evidence; Or, Clever but Crooked
Nicholas Carter · novel
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The Piccadilly Puzzle: A Mysterious Story
Fergus Hume · novel
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The Pink Shop
Fergus Hume · novel
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The Pirates of Shan: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
Harold L. Goodwin · novel
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The Pit Town Coronet: A Family Mystery, Volume 1 (of 3)
C. J. Wills · novel
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The Pit Town Coronet: A Family Mystery, Volume 2 (of 3)
C. J. Wills · novel
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The Pit Town Coronet: A Family Mystery, Volume 3 (of 3)
C. J. Wills · novel
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The Pit-Prop Syndicate
Freeman Wills Crofts · novel
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The Place of Dragons: A Mystery
William Le Queux · novel
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The Plot That Failed; or, When Men Conspire
Nicholas Carter · novel
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The Plunderers: A Novel
Edwin Lefevre · novel
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The Plymouth Express Affair
An American heiress boards a train with a fortune in jewels but never reaches her destination alive.
Agatha Christie · short story
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The Poacher; Or, Joseph Rushbrook
Frederick Marryat · novel
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The Poacher's Wife
Eden Phillpotts · novel
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The Pointing Man: A Burmese Mystery
Marjorie Douie · novel
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The poisoned chocolates case
Anthony Berkeley · novel
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The Poisoned Pen
Arthur B. Reeve · short story
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The Polite People of Pudibundia
R. A. Lafferty · short story
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The Ponson case
Freeman Wills Crofts · novel
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The porcelain mask
John Jay Chichester · novel
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The Port of Missing Men
Meredith Nicholson · novel
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The Postmaster's Daughter
Louis Tracy · novel
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The Power of Conscience, exemplified in the genuine and extraordinary confession of Thomas Bedworth
Thomas Bedworth · history
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The Power-House
John Buchan · novel
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The Powers of Europe and Fall of Sebastopol
A British officer · history
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The Prelude to Adventure
Hugh Walpole · novel
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The presidential snapshot
Bertram Lebhar · novel
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The Prisoner at the Bar: Sidelights on the Administration of Criminal Justice
Arthur Cheney Train · novel
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
James Hogg · novel
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The Problem of 'Edwin Drood': A Study in the Methods of Dickens
W. Robertson Sir Nicoll · ideas
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The problem of Cell 13
A scientist treats every crime like a math equation, and the answers are rarely pretty.
Jacques Futrelle · novel
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The Professor's Mystery
Wells Hastings · novel
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The Profiteers
E. Phillips Oppenheim · novel
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The Purcell Papers — Volume 1
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · short story
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The Purcell Papers — Volume 2
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · short story
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The Purple Fern
Fergus Hume · novel
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The purple sickle murders
Freeman Wills Crofts · novel
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The Puzzle in the Pond
Margaret Sutton · novel
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The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot
Andrew Lang · ideas
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The puzzle planet
Robert A. W. Lowndes · novel