Favorite Forgotten Thrillers

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Eric Ambler, The Dark Frontier (c. 1936)
While on holiday, Professor Harry Barstow, a renowned physicist, crashes his auto, awakening in the persona of adventurer Conway Carruther, the hero of the novel he had been reading.

James M. Cain, Postman Always Rings Twice (c. 1934)
The sultry young wife of a diner owner conspires with an aimless drifter to murder her husband.

John Dickson Carr, The Man Who Could Not Shudder (c. 1940)
Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries, # 12

Eberhart, Mignon G., Three Days for Emeralds (1988)
Lacy Wales stumbles into a murder with links to her fiancé, Richard Blake, and her stepmother's estranged stepbrother, a wealthy emerald mine owner.

Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal (c. 1971)
An Englishman plans to assassinate Charles de Gaulle.

Adam Hall, Quiller Balalaika (2003)
On a final assignment for his top-secret British intelligence agency, Quiller infiltrates the mafiya of post-Cold War Russia in order to take out a brilliant crime lord, a mission for which he must also rescue a prisoner from a gulag prison.

Hazel Holt, Mrs. Malory and the Festival Murders (1993)
While working on the preparations for a local festival, Sheila Malory must turn sleuth when the generally disliked Palgrave is murdered.

Ira Levin, A Kiss Before Dying (1954)
A charming young man will stop at nothing, including murder, to get to where he wants to go.

Ed McBain, Killer’s Choice (c. 1958)
Veteran Steve Carella teams up with greenhorn detective Cotton Hawes to track down the vicious killer who murdered Annie Boone, a beautiful redhead with a complex past.

John D. MacDonald, The Deep Blue Good-by (1964)
Revealing the origins of young Travis McGee, the all-American hero of a popular mystery series, a first adventure story follows the humble beginnings of a flawed-but-well-intentioned character.

Ross MacDonald, The Instant Enemy (c. 1968)
Private detective Lew Archer's search for a pretty seventeen-year-old runaway and her juvenile delinquent boyfriend leads to trouble, violence, kidnapping, and murder along the Sunset Strip.

Lawrence Sanders, The First Deadly Sin (c. 1973)
Captain Ed Delaney of the New York City police is out to stop a well-dressed man from depopulating Manhattan's priciest neighborhoods with an ice pick.

Simenon, Georges, Maigret Sets a Trap (1965)
When five women are brutally murdered on the streets of Montmartre, Parisian Police Chief Jules Maigret, with the help of a psychiatrist, plays a series of clever mind games in an attempt to trap the killer.

Joseph Wambaugh, The Choirboys (1975)
The "choirboys," a group of unmarried policemen, use "choir practice" in Los Angeles' MacArthur Park to unwind and drink after their late night duty.

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