Tuesday, December 26, 2006

 

Top 50 Mystery Books 11 - 20 Black Book Bingo

Books, books, book recommendations from a fellow bingo player on Black Book Bingo sponsored by B2KBINGO

11. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems by .Edgar Alan Poe
This Collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes such masterpieces as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Purloined Letter, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and Murders in the Rue Morgue.

12. The Lake of Darkness by Ruth Rendell
The seemingly normal benefactors of Martin Urban's altruistic impulses are vicious nut cases. His good intentions become fatally distorted. One of Rendell's best novels.

13. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
P.I. Philip Marlowe, tries to help war veteran Terry Lennox, whose sex-obsessed wealthy wife has been murdered. When Terry is also murdered, Marlowe becomes entangled in his friend's dirty family secrets. A gripping tale of moral corruption.

14. Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
Dashing murderer Tom Ripley is playing a nasty game of manipulation on an inconspicuous man, leading to murder and revenge. A dark tale.

15. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
With Don Vito Corleone's violent struggle to control the underworld of New York we glimpse into an ancient world of honor and vendetta, Italian family tradition, friendship and loyalty were betrayal is punished with merciless vengeance.

16. The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
Ted Bundy, a most violent sociopath, murderer, and mutilator of women, is the subject of this true-crime book. Ann Rule's chilling account, from the time she unsuspectingly met and worked with the savage slayer to the moment of his death by electrocution in Florida, is one of the greatest books in the true crime genre.

17. Taxi Driver by Paul Schrader
As a taxi driver on night shift he is longing for true love and beauty, which he thinks he has found in Betsy. But their relationship is doomed. In a state of psychotic rage, Travis goes on a murdering rampage.

18. Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
Turow's first courtroom thriller is one of the best legal fiction novels. A dark twist of events transforms prosecutor Susty Sabich from the accuser to the accused.

19. Murder Down Under by Arthur W. Upfield
Napoleon (Bony) Bonaparte investigates a murder while on vacation in the wheat town of Burracoppin of Western Australia. In the fascinating scenery of the Australian Outback quirky characters will drag you into a complex puzzle.

20. The Bachelors of Broken Hill by Arthur W. Upfield
When elderly bachelors are being poisoned one by one, Bony is sent to Broken Hill to get to the bottom of it. Upfield and Hosking keep listeners guessing until the last minute of this oddly fascinating mystery.

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