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DVD Review: Murder, She Wrote: The Complete Second Season
Murder and mayhem on the coast of Maine
Read More »Why Would Anyone Want To Be A Criminal And An Addict?
His book's trivialization of the people who have made a real commitment to change is more criminal than anything he claims to have done
Read More »DVD Review: Gun Shy
"You mean even the gangsters are unhappy?"
Read More »Literary Genre: A Comfortable Old Coat, or A Moth-eaten Relic?
Once a novel strikes a false note, you suddenly start to notice the musty smell dry-cleaning cannot remove.
Read More »Book Review: Hush Money by Robert B. Parker
Spenser is smart, witty, compassionate and very strong. I like to think I'm all of those things.
Read More »Book Review: My Very Own Murder
Chick-lit disguised as a cozy mystery-- a pleasant but unsubstantial read.
Read More »DVD Review: Last Exit and Red Cockroaches
Last Exit and Red Cockroaches ... present grim, challenging views of the world ... unsettling, but so is the world
Read More »Book Review: The Franchise Affair, by Josephine Tey
The politics of this novel are impossible nasty: the explanation for the girl's dishonest behaviour is "bad blood".
Read More »Restore the Empress of Crime: Dorothy L Sayers
She has a richness of texture, a complexity of character and exploration of still-current themes that Christie can't match.
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