The Executioner’s Song
Pulitzer Prize-winning true crime novel by Norman Mailer that depicts the events related to the execution of Gary Gilmore for murder by the state of Utah
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carr
To Kill a Mockingbird
Novel by the American author Harper Lee
The Day of the Jackal
Thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.The novel received admiring reviews and praise when first published in 1971, and it received a 1972 Best Novel Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America
The Name of the Rose
1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform Russian: , tr. Prestuplniye i nakazniye, IPA: [prstplenje nkzanje]) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of …
The Big Sleep
Hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe
Marcel Allain
French writer mostly remembered today for his co-creation with Pierre Souvestre of the fictional arch-villain and master criminal Fantômas.
Tana French
American-Irish writer and theatrical actress
The Likeness
2008 mystery novel by Tana French