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Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (1934) ...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1902) ...
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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930) ...
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The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939) ...
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The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980) ...
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In the Woods by Tana French (2007)
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