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 riddle of the rangeland
Forbes Parkhill · novel
The story in one page
The Riddle of the Sands
Two amateur sailors find a German invasion fleet lurking in the shallows of the North Sea.
Erskine Childers · novel
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The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel
Mary E. Hanshew · novel
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The rider of the Mohave
James Fellom · novel
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The Riders of Ramapo Pass
Dean L. Heffernan · novel
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The Risk Profession
Donald E. Westlake · novel
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The Rival Campers Ashore; or, The Mystery of the Mill
Ruel Perley Smith · novel
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The river of stars
Edgar Wallace · novel
The story in one page
The Roman hat mystery
A blackmailer dies in a packed playhouse, but the killer escapes with the one thing no one would notice: a hat.
Ellery Queen · novel
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The Romance of Elaine
Arthur B. Reeve · novel
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The Romance of the Forest, interspersed with some pieces of poetry.
Ann Ward Radcliffe · novel
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The Rome Express
Arthur Griffiths · novel
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The Room in the Dragon Volant
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · novel
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The room in the tower, and other stories
E. F. Benson · short story
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The Room with the Tassels
Carolyn Wells · novel
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The Root of All Evil
J. S. Fletcher · novel
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The Rope of Gold
Roy J. Snell · novel
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The Rover Boys in Business; Or, The Search for the Missing Bonds
Edward Stratemeyer · novel
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The Rover Boys in New York; Or, Saving Their Father's Honor
Edward Stratemeyer · novel
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The Rover Boys in Southern Waters; or, The Deserted Steam Yacht
Edward Stratemeyer · novel
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The Rover Boys in the Air; Or, From College Campus to the Clouds
Edward Stratemeyer · novel
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The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island; or, The Old Lumberman's Treasure Box
Edward Stratemeyer · novel
The story in one page
The Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam Hall
Three brothers balance farm chores, mystery-solving, and the final weeks of military school.
Edward Stratemeyer · novel
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The Rover Boys winning a fortune; or, Strenuous days ashore and afloat
Edward Stratemeyer · novel
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The Running Fight
William Hamilton Osborne · novel
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The Sacred Herb
Fergus Hume · novel
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The Saintsbury Affair
Lily A. Long · novel
The story in one page
The Samurai Strategy
A Japanese industrialist tanks the U.S. economy, all while brandishing a sword that is definitely a fake.
Thomas Hoover · novel
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The scarab murder case
S. S. Van Dine · novel
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The Scarlet Bat: A Detective Story
Fergus Hume · novel
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The Scarlet Lake Mystery: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
Harold L. Goodwin · novel
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The sea mystery
Freeman Wills Crofts · novel
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The Sealed Message
Fergus Hume · novel
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The Second Dandy Chater
Tom Gallon · novel
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The Second-Story Man
Upton Sinclair · play
The story in one page
The Secret Adversary
Two young, broke, and bored Londoners decide to start an adventure agency; they immediately find a dangerous international conspiracy.
Agatha Christie · novel
The story in one page
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
An embassy official demands a bomb, a spy recruits his brother-in-law, and the Greenwich Observatory becomes a target for boredom.
Joseph Conrad · novel
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The Secret Cache: An Adventure and Mystery Story for Boys
Ethel C. Brill · novel
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The Secret House
Edgar Wallace · novel
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The secret in the hill
Bernard Capes · novel
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The Secret Mark
Roy J. Snell · novel
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The Secret of Casa Grande
Helen Randolph · novel
The story in one page
The Secret of Chimneys
A drifter takes a job delivering memoirs and ends up accidentally inheriting a throne and a murder investigation at a country house.
Agatha Christie · novel
The story in one page
The secret of Father Brown
A dumpy priest with a club-like umbrella explains how he catches killers by mentally committing their murders first.
G. K. Chesterton · short story
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The Secret of Lonesome Cove
Samuel Hopkins Adams · novel
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The Secret of Sarek
Maurice Leblanc · novel
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The secret of the caves
Franklin W. Dixon · novel
The story in one page
The Secret of the Night
An aging general needs protection from invisible bombers; a French reporter arrives to manage the paranoia.
Gaston Leroux · novel