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`100 Best Books' lineup finds some of the usual suspects are missing
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19871127
Author:Henry Kisor
"Best book" lists always stir passionate quarrels among their readers, and Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books, by H. R. F. Keating (Carroll & Graf, $15.95) will be no exception. No Dick Francis? No Elmore Leonard? Come on!
Nonetheless Keating offers well-reasoned arguments for his choices, beginning with Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination of 1845 and ending with P. D. James's A Taste for Death in 1986. Keating has impressive credentials: He not only is the author of the admirable Inspector Ghote whodunit series set in Bombay, but also is a former mystery critic for the ...
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