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Number 50 on the list:
Helen Grayle/Velma Valento from Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond ChandlerRead about Number One on the list.
Described as "a blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window", Helen Grayle is the most memorable of Raymond Chandler's femmes fatales. She leaves a trail of bloody victims in her wake as she tries to hide her past as flame-haired nightclub singer Velma Valento.
--Marshal Zeringue