# Crime novels

**Author(s):** Patricia Highsmith, Chester Himes, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, Charles Ray Willeford
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/crime-novels/verdict.json
**Genres:** mystery, literary-fiction
**Pages:** 892
**Publisher:** Library of America
**Published:** Wed Jan 01 1997 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781883011499
**ISBN-10:** 1883011493
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/crime-novels

## Description

All of The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson, The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, Pick-Up by Charles Willeford, Down There, by David Goodis and The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes;

## SageChimp reader verdict

Crime novels has no unpaid published reviews on SageChimp yet. That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/crime-novels/verdict.json

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**Themes:** Crime Investigation