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Title	Author	Description
The Moro Affair Moro Affair	Leonardo Sciascia Sciascia	The Moro Affair presents a chilling picture of how a secretive government and a ruthless terrorist faction help to keep each other in business. Contributors: Peter Robb , Sacha Rabinovitch
Equal Danger Equal Danger	Leonardo Sciascia Sciascia	District Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these random murders, or part of a conspiracy? Contributors: Carlin Romano , Adrienne Foulke
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan Three Bedrooms	Georges Simenon Simenon	An actor and a divorcée meet in a deserted New York City bar. With little in common save loneliness, middle age, and a presentiment of escape, they improvise a love story. Contributors: Joyce Carol Oates , Marc Romano, Lawrence G. Blochman
The Day of the Owl Day of the Owl	Leonardo Sciascia Sciascia	This short, beautifully paced novel is a mesmerizing description of the Mafia at work. Contributors: George Scialabba , Archibald Colquhoun and Anthony Oliver
Dirty Snow Dirty	Georges Simenon Simenon	Dirty Snow, widely acknowledged as one of Simenon's finest books, is a study of the criminal mind comparable to Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me. Contributors: William T. Vollmann , Marc Romano and Louise Varese
The Wine-Dark Sea Wine-Dark Sea	Leonardo Sciascia Sciascia	Sciascia examines the contradictions—sometimes comic, sometimes deadly, and sometimes both—of Sicily's turbulent history and day-to-day life. Contributors: Albert Mobilio , Avril Bardoni
To Each His Own To Each His Own	Leonardo Sciascia Sciascia	To Each His Own is one of the masterworks of the great Sicilian novelist Leonardo Sciascia?a gripping and unconventional detective story that is also an anatomy of a society founded on secrets, lies, collusion, and violence. Contributors: W.S. Di Piero , Adrienne Foulke
Classic Crimes Classic Crimes	William Roughead Roughead	Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair, Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Scotland. Contributors: Luc Sante
A Handbook on Hanging Handbook on Hanging	Charles Duff Duff	With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. Contributors: Christopher Hitchens
The Other House Other House	Henry James James	The savage conclusion of The Other House makes it one of the most disturbing and memorable of Henry James's depictions of the uncontrollable passions that lie beneath the polished veneer of civilized life. Contributors: Louis Begley