Five Exhilarating Classic Thriller Novels November 3, 2011 at 6:31 am
Classic Horror Fiction Do you love reading exciting detective and mystery novels? Here is a list of five classic thriller novels that may keep you on the fringe of your seat.
The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins: An extremely exciting thriller set during the Second World War with a storyline depending on both fact and fiction. A small grouping of Germans are on a mission for kidnap the British pm, Winston Churchill. The mission is supervised by Himmler and also the code name for they is “The Eagle”. With the help of British nazi sympathizers the team moves in and plan to kidnap Churchill at his country estate. Equally as they are about to kidnap him, two children almost drown along with their cover is blown when one of many Germans tries to help them.
The Firm by John Grisham: A well written thriller from 1991 that will hold your awareness of the end. In this novel we follow Mitch McDeere, a law student who have an offer to work for a prestigious attorney in Memphis. They offer him a big salary, a beautiful house, a lease over a new car and to pay off his school loans. He takes the job and moves to Memphis together with his wife, but what he doesn’t know is that the firm operates by the mafia and no one can possibly leave, except by death. Soon after months the FBI starts an investigation of the firm and ask Mitch for his help.
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler: The main character in this hardboiled detective story will be the private investigator Philip Marlowe. One night Terry Lennox occurs at his friend Marlowe’s door asking him to operate a vehicle him to Mexico. Marlowe agrees to help him but when he comes back it turns out Lennox’s wife may be murdered. Soon Lennox is found dead by suicide in Mexico with a written confession beside him. Marlowe isn’t sure he really killed his wife, then when he starts looking into the case a lot of people try and stop him.
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris: Whilst not as well-known as Harris’s next book, The Silence with the Lambs, it was this novel which introduced us to Dr. Hannibal Lecter. The storyplot is about a killer who calls himself the Red Dragon who has murdered two families. To halt him, they get in touch with retired Will Graham who has a unique ability of working out what serial killers have done and how they made it happen. When Graham fails to catch the mystery killer he or she is forced to consult the infamous Dr. Hannibal Lecter. This can be a well-written thriller that will keep you for the edge of your seat!
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett: One of the greatest detective novels of all time. When Private detective Samuel Spade is visited by the beautiful woman asking him to help find her sister, he doesn’t believe her for a second. After her visit, Spade’s partner is killed while working and the man becomes the prime suspect once the police tries to pin the murder on him. Several people visit Spade and he soon learns that the woman and a couple of other people are looking for a jewel-encrusted statue worth millions called the The Maltese Falcon. Now he has to find the statue and try to solve the murder case of his partner.
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