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Award-Winning Mysteries

Dance at the slaughterhouse (Men in scarlet aprons) : a Matthew Scudder crime novel by Lawrence Block

The delicate storm by Giles Blunt

Cimarron rose by a novel by James Lee Burke

Bones : an Irene Kelly mystery by Jan Burke

The long goodbye by Raymond Chandler

Old bones : a Gideon Oliver mystery by Aaron Elkins

Hopscotch [videodisc] by Janus Films and Studio Canal presents an Avco Embasy film, Edie and Ely Landau present a Ronald Neame film, a joint venture between Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema

Dance hall of the dead by Tony Hillerman

A cold red sunrise : an Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mystery by Stuart M. Kaminsky

The bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale

The spy who came in from the cold by John Le Carré

Bootlegger's daughter by Margaret Maron

Promised land by Robert B. Parker

Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker

Winter and night by S.J. Rozan

New Orleans mourning by Julie Smith

God save the mark : a novel of crime and confusion by Donald Westlake

Blind eye by John Morgan Wilson

The sculptress by Minette Walters