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Boris Akunin
	B	The Turkish Gambit
	B	The Winter Queen
Bruce Alexander
	B	Blind Justice
Margery Allingham
	C	The Black Dudley Murder
	B	The Case of the Late Pig
	B	Dancers in Mourning
	D	The Death of a Ghost
	A	The Fashion in Shrouds
	A	The Fear Sign (aka Sweet Danger and Kingdom of Death)
	B	Look to the Lady
	B	Mystery Mile
	C	Police at the Funeral
Anna Apostolou
	C	A Murder in Macedon
Jonathan Barnes
	B	The Somnambulist
T.F. Banks
	A	The Thief Taker
Benjamin Black
	C	Christine Falls
Rhys Bowen
	B	Death of Riley
	B	Murphy's Law
Alan Bradley
	B	A Red Herring Without Mustard
	B	The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
	C	The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
Raymond Chandler
	B	The Big Sleep
	B	Farewell My Lovely
Agatha Christie
	A+	And Then There Were None
	A	The Essential Agatha Christie Stories
	C	Dead Man's Folly
	C	Hallowe'en Party
	A	The Murder At the Vicarage
	A	Murder on the Orient Express
	A+	The Mysterious Affair at Styles
	A	The Tuesday Club Murders
Beverly Cleverly
	A	The Last Kashmiri Rose
Wilkie Collins
	A	The Woman in White
Colin Cotterill
	B	Anarchy and Old Dogs
	A	The Coroner's Lunch
	C	Curse of the Pogo Stick
	B	Disco For the Departed
	B	Thirty-Three Teeth
Lindsey Davis
	A	The Silver Pigs
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
	A+	The Hound of the Baskervilles
Daphne du Maurier
	A	Rebecca
Lyndsay Faye
	A	The Gods of Gotham
Glen David Gold
	B	Carter Beats the Devil
Carol Goodman
	B	The Ghost Orchid
Carolyn Haines
	A	Penumbra
Dashiell Hammett
	B	The Maltese Falcon
Joanne Harris
	A	Gentlemen & Players
Mina Hepsen
	A	Under the Blood Red Moon
Stuart Kaminsky
	C	Dancing in the Dark
	B	Murder on the Yellow Brick Road
Philip Kerr
	D	Dark Matter
Laurie R. King
	B	The Game
	B	Justice Hall
	B	The Language of Bees
	B	Locked Rooms
	B	The Moor
Mary Kruger
	A	Death on the Cliff Walk
Ken Kuhlken
	B	The Angel Gang
	B	The Do-Re-Mi
	C	The Loud Adios
	B	The Venus Deal
Ernesto Mallo
	B	Needle in a Hay Stack
Ngaio Marsh
	B	Artists in Crime
	B	Clutch of Constables
	A	Colour Scheme
	A	Death and the Dancing Footman
	B	Death in Ecstasy
	A+	Death of a Fool
	A	Death of a Peer
	C	Died in the Wool
	A	The Nursing Home Murder
	D	Overture in Death
	B	Photo Finish
	B	Spinsters in Jeopardy
	C	Tied Up in Tinsel
	B	When in Rome

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D.R. Martin
	A	Mary MacDougall and the Gitche Gumee Murder
Walter Mosley
	B	Fear Itself
	B	Fear of the Dark
	B	Fearless Jones
Charles Palliser
	F	Quincunx
	C	The Unburied
Iain Pears
	B	An Instance of the Fingerpost
	D	The Last Judgement
Arturo Perez-Reverte
	B	The Fencing Master
Anne Perry
	A	Acceptable Loss
	B	Angels in the Gloom
	B	At Some Disputed Barricade
	A	A Breach of Promise
	B	Cain His Brother
	A	A Dangerous Mourning
	A	Dark Assassin
	A	Death of a Stranger
	A	Defend and Betray
	B	Execution Dock
	B	The Face of a Stranger
	C	Funeral in Blue
	B	No Graves as Yet
	B	The Shifting Tide
	A	Shoulder the Sky
	A	The Silent Cry
	A	The Sins of the Wolf
	B	Slaves of Obsession
	A	A Sudden, Fearful Death
	A	The Twisted Root
	A	We Shall Not Sleep
	C	Weighed in the Balance
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Elizabeth Peters
	C	The Ape Who Guards the Balance
	B	Children of the Storm
	A	Crocodile on the Sandbank
	B	The Curse of the Pharaohs
	D	The Deeds of the Disburber
	C	Die for Love
	A	The Falcon at the Portal
	C	The Golden One
	C	Guardian of the Horizon
	A	He Shall Thunder in the Sky
	C	The Hippopotamus Pool
	B	The Last Camel Died at Noon
	B	Lion in the Valley
	B	The Lord of the Silent
	C	The Mummy Case
	C	A River in the Sky
	B	Seeing a Large Cat
	C	The Serpent on the Crown
	B	The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog
	C	Tomb of the Golden Bird
Ellis Peters
	B	A Morbid Taste for Bones
Amanda Quick
	B	Don't Look Back
	B	Second Sight
	B	Slightly Shady
John Howard Reid
	A	In All His Glory
Caroline Roe
	C	Remedy for Treason
Laura Joh Rowland
	C	Shinju
Jed Rubenfeld
	B	The Interpretation of Murder
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Dorothy Sayers
	B	Busman's Honeymoon
	A	Gaudy Night
	A	Murder Must Advertise
	B	Whose Body?
Karen Stokes
	B	Talion
Rex Stout
	B	Death of a Dude
	C	A Family Affair
	B	The Father Hunt
	C	The Rubber Band
	A	Where There's a Will
Josephine Tey
	C	Brat Farrar
	A	The Daughter of Time
Jacqueline Winspear
	A	Among the Mad
	B	Birds of a Feather
	B	Elegy for Eddie
	B	An Incomplete Revenge
	C	A Lesson in Secrets
	A+	Maisie Dobbs
	B	The Mapping of Love and Death
	C	Messenger of Truth
	A	Pardonable Lies
Lynn York
	B	The Piano Teacher
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
	B	The Shadow of the Wind
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