Showing posts with label favorite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label favorite. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

and thus we come to the end: White Jazz, by James Ellroy

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   " ... it's dues time."  White Jazz  closes out Ellroy's LA Quartet, and in doing so, takes us into the life of  Dave Kl...
Friday, October 2, 2020

L.A. Confidential, by James Ellroy

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  -- read earlier " It was a once-in-a-lifetime case and the price for clearing it was very, very high." I'm one of those weir...
Monday, September 21, 2020

The Big Nowhere, by James Ellroy

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With two books left to read in  the LA Quartet , after finishing The Black Dahlia and  Big Nowhere I had to take a break.  They're excel...
Friday, September 18, 2020

The Black Dahlia, by James Ellroy

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"... our partnership was nothing but a bungling road to the Dahlia. And in the end, she was to own the two of us completely."   In...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

The Red Right Hand, by Joel Townsley Rogers.

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"... it was a pretty good play, as criminal plays go." Two of my favorite mystery/crime novels within the last year or so ha...
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Thursday, January 16, 2020

pure writing excellence: Dread Journey, by Dorothy Hughes

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9781613161463 Penzler Publishers/American Mystery Classics, 2019 187 pp  paperback Every once in a while (with mega-apologies ...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

*The Complete Judith Lee Adventures, by Richard Marsh (ed.) Minna Vuohelainen

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9781943910229 Valancourt Books, 2016 546 pp paperback " Judith Lee is a young woman who calls herself a teacher of the deaf and...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

I dare you to come out of these unscathed: The Factory series, by Derek Raymond

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" The black novel ... describes men and women whose circumstances have pushed too far, people whom existence has bent and deformed.  It...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

*...and diving into the 1880s: Devlin the Barber, by Benjamin Leopold Farjeon

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9781540370426 createspace, 2016 originally published 1888, Ward and Downey 202 pp paperback "... the ends of justice are some...
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Monday, September 26, 2016

another seriously good novel, this time from Russia: The Investigator, by Margarita Khemlin

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9781784379650 Glagoslav Publications, 2015 originally published 2012 translated by Melanie Moore 336 pp paperback ...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book!!! His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae, by Graeme Macrae Burnet

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9781910192146 Contraband, 2015 280 pp paperback There is no doubt that when I go back to look over what I've read thi...
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Friday, July 15, 2016

perfect noir greatness: Black Wings Has My Angel, by Elliott Chaze

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(read in June) 9781590179161 NYRB Classics, 2016 originally published 1953 209 pp paperback " ...real life is not a series o...
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

a little belladonna with your bovril broth? The Deadly Dowager, by Edwin Greenwood

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9781943910380 Valancourt Books, 2016 (originally published 1934) 233 pp paperback " There's only one thing that matters, ....
Monday, May 16, 2016

another dynamic duo during dedicated down days, this time from Valancourt Books: Wax, by Ethel Lina White and Gilded Needles, by Michael McDowell

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 Valancourt Books publishes old crime fiction, supernatural fiction, horror fiction and long-ago forgotten novels, and they've kept me ...
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