mystery novels

7 White-Hot Suspense Novels To Heat Up Your Holidays

Is it cold outside, or are these books just sending chills down your spine?
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What Is the Appeal of Detective Fiction? Dashiell Hammett's "The Continental Op" as Exemplar

The first-person narrator is the imposer of order in a world of chaos--or rather, deceit, lies, hypocrisy, where nothing is as it seems. And yet reading a classic of noir fiction like Dashiell Hammett's The Continental Op is a revelation.
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