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Book Review: Little Elvises (Junior Bender #2) by Timothy Hallinan
Biting humor marks Hallinan's hardboiled caper of “the crook’s cop” taking a case to keep himself from being framed. Or that's the way it started...
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Book Review: Ghost Money by Andrew Nette
A gritty crime noir novel set in 1990s Cambodia, Ghost Money intrigues with its mix of criminal enterprise and historical context.
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3 Book Review: The Song is You by Megan Abbott
Emulating hardboiled lingo to a T, Megan Abbott traces the strange circumstances surrounding actress and B-girl Jean Spangler, who disappeared from Los Angeles in 1949.
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4 Book Review: The Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain
Brutal and seductive noir fiction.
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5 Book Review: The Twenty-Year Death by Ariel S. Winter
A brilliant debut novel in the noir/hardboiled genre that will shake new life into it.
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Book Review: White Heat (P.I. Duke Rogers Series, Book 1) by Paul D. Marks
The 1992 Rodney King riots plays out from flashpoint to fiery embers as P.I. “Duke” Rogers pursues a case and “Atonement for being a lousy detective."
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Book Review: False Negative by Joseph Koenig
The veteran crime writer returns to the genre after a two decade absence.
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Short Story Review: "Malibu Waltz" by Grant O’Neill (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 2012)
Chandleresque short crime fiction at its finest.
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9 Book Review: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s and ’50s by David Goodis, Robert Polito (Editor)
Five Noir Novels of the 1940s and ’50s celebrates the full scope of Goodis' jazzy, expressionist style of noir at its best.
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10 Book Review: The Original Sam McCain Mysteries by Ed Gorman
Nostalgic '50s PI Mystery's the way the '50s really were.
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