Mystery Books
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The Sudoku Puzzle Murders: A Puzzle Lady Mystery (Puzzle Lady Mysteries)Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady (who actually couldn’t solve a crossword puzzle to save her life), is surprisingly goo
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The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee Mysteries)"The professional's professional of suspense writers."THE NEW YORK TIMESTravis McGee has been offered easy money b
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Silent JoeScarred for life by a brutal father, Joe Trona found a safe haven and a loving childhood in the home of the couple who adopted him
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Bullet ProofTHEY COULDN’T BUY NESS OR BREAK HIM...SO THEY TRIED TO KILL HIM. Cleveland’s a solid union town, but organized crime has put t
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Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the ClassroomWinner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award and Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Bo
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BlindsightRobin Cook is back—with a shocking story of medical conspiracy. Today, organ transplants are common miracles of science.
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Mystery Movies
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Phone BoothA single phone call can change a man's life…or possibly end it. Colin Farrell delivers a captivating, off-the-hook performance a
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Shutter IslandAcademy Award® winning director Martin Scorses once again teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio in this spine-chilling thriller that cr
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American Psycho (Uncut Version) (Killer Collector's Edition)Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a Wall Street yuppie obsessed with success, status and style, with a stunning fiancé (Reese W
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A Beautiful Mind (Widescreen)(2001)Winner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, A Beautiful Mind is directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard and produced b
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Mystic RiverThree friends who grew up in working-class Boston drift apart after a terrible tragedy. Years later, brutal events reconnect them.
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Mystery Authors
Welcome to Topmystery.com - the website about the top mystery books, movies and authors. Use the menu on the top to navigate through the sections of the website.
The site is divided into seven main sections:
Mystery Movies: Although there are a lot of mystery movies released, most of them, even though great mysteries, are just bellow average movies. I love to watch mystery movies, but very often I feel disappointed after the movie ends. Some of them just forget that a movie has to have certain qualities( acting, directing) in order to be enjoyable. Therefore most of the mystery movies based on books are not included in my list. Would you read a mystery book that has the most ingenious mystery plot in it, but the writing is boring and amateurish? The same applies to the movies.
Here are the qualities that I consider: - Acting: A movie with bad actors will never be a good movie no matter what.
- Directing: Good directing itself can create mystery. A mystery movie just s cannot be like a mystery book. Crime happens, detective comes, he interrogates people, then solves the crime. Any movie that follows that will be boring. It needs something else: a sparkle, an intrigue, a funny moment, surprise, a great actors. You just know when you see it.
- Plot: The most important part. Here I consider a wide variety of movies. As long as there is a mysterious situation that is gradually revealed in the movie, which is not obvious to guess, and the ending is not the usual Hollywood ending. Basically movies that makes you think.
- Atmosphere: One example: David Lynch movies. You just have to love the combination of music, camera and settings.
Mystery Books: Here you will find lists of recommended mystery books. It is a good start into the mystery genre. I haven't read all the books listed but the lists are written by mystery writers, organizations, book clubs, readers votes, etc. so they should be a good source. What is more many books appear in almost every list( ex: The Murder Of Rodger Acroyd") which is a good sign that only the top mystery books are listed. There are also lists of more recent books if you are interested in that.
Mystery Authors: I looked at many mystery sites on the Internet and compiled a list of the best Mystery Authors. Most of them are classic mystery authors that do not write anymore. Nevertheless, some of the best mystery books were written by them. For each author you will find a biography, a photo, list of his works and links to other webpages about the author.
Detectives: In this section you will find the most famous mystery detectives. Probably you know many of them. For each detective there is a link to the books he or she is the main character in.
Online books: Public domain mystery books that are available to read free online. The links are to external websites. If you are interested to read more online books you can go to www.Blackmask.com. They have downloadable books in many formats( palm, Pocketpc, etc.)
Links: Many links to the best mystery sites on the Internet. You can find links to book reviews sites, authors sites, book discussions, general mystery sites and so on.
Agatha Christie: Since in my opinion Agatha Christie is the best mystery writer of all times I created a website specially about her. Here you will find Agatha Christie's biography, interesting facts and articles, list of her books, summary and reviews off all her books, many online books by Agatha Christie to read and much more.