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Jake Kerridge

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Writes about books and the like for the Telegraph and the like. Mainliner of crime fiction.
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How well do you know the best books of all time? Take our quiz

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By Jake Kerridge Verified
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Fifty books, 28 centuries – yesterday we revealed the our greatest books of all time. Only a small handful of bibliophiles will have read them all. The rest of you now have a tall pile to tackle – you might know your Dickens but not your Didion, your Tolstoy but not your Tokarczuk. The real question, though, is: how well do you remember the books you have read? Test your knowledge in the quiz below.
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Step aside, John le Carré. Here are Len Deighton's five essential books

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By Jake Kerridge Verified
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Jake Kerridge John le Carré made spy fiction intellectually respectable; Len Deighton , who has died aged 97, made it hip. Although he claimed to have none of le Carré's real-life experience of the espionage world, with his debut novel The Ipcress File (1962) Deighton brought to the genre a bolshie anti-establishment wit that caught the mood of the 1960s as they started to swing.
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The greatest crime novelist you have probably never heard of

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By Jake Kerridge Verified
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Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, Donald E Westlake wrote more than 100 novels - Leonardo Cendamo In 1997, nearly 40 years into his writing career and with a tally of novels well into triple figures, Donald E Westlake published a thriller called The Ax. The unheroic hero was Burke Devore, a middle-manager at a paper manufacturing company. Made redundant and angling for another job, he decides to improve his chances by killing off half a dozen of the best-qualified of his rival candidates.
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