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Are you a criminal mastermind or criminally inept? Now's the time to find out by plotting your wits against our crime quiz - it's dead, dead good.

1) Which Raymond Chandler novel begins with the line ?The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lomax he was drunk in a Rolls-Royce Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers?
The Big Sleep

The Long Goodbye

Farewell, My Lovely

The High Window

2) Nicci French is pseudonym for the writing partnership of:
Jonathan Kellerman and Faye Kellerman

Jayne French and Michael Gerrard

Sean French and Nicci Gerrard

Nicci Gerrard and Sarah French

3) The Water Clock by Jim Kelly, which features a massive flood on the Cambridgeshire Fens, was inspired by which Dorothy L. Sayers novel?
The Nine Tailors

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

Five Red Herrings

Strong Poison

4) Which of these novels was NOT written by Barbara Vine?
The Blood Doctor

The Dark-Adapted Eye

The Fatal Aversion

The Brimstone Wedding

5) In the novels of Jonathan Kellerman, what is the name of Alex Delaware?s dog?
Spike

Jimmy

Milo

Pepsi

6) In which novel does Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigate a suspicious death in a London publishing house?
The Murder Room

The Lighthouse

The Black Tower

Original Sin

7) Before turning bounty hunter Stephanie Plum worked at:
Fiorelli?s Deli

New Jersey State Police

E.E. Martin?s Lingerie

Morelli?s Garage

8) Which of the following characters, named after a cartoon figure, can be found in P. J. Tracy's thrillers?
Bugs Bunny

Mickey Mouse

Roadrunner

Popeye

9) Loan shark Chili Palmer appears in two Elmore Leonard novels ? Get Shorty and . . .?
Out of Sight

Be Cool

Freaky Deaky

Swag

10) n what year were the first Penguin Crime novels published?
1922

1935

1944

1960
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