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October 29, 2018

Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s

October 29, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s

A grand arrangement of five classic and addictively readable pulp novels,

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October 29, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Anthologies/Short Stories, Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
Leslie S. Klinger, crime fiction, anthology, Otto Penzler, classic American fiction, 1920s America, Earl Biggers, S. S. Van Dine, Ellery Queen, Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett, Little Caesar, W. R. Burnett, detective fiction, noir, mystery fiction, Steve Donoghue
August 22, 2018

The Line That Held Us by David Joy

August 22, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
The Line That Held Us by David Joy

A riveting crime noir set against rural Appalachia.

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August 22, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Crime & Thrillers, Literary Fiction
David Joy, Putnam, rural Appalachia, literary fiction, crime fiction, noir, Penguin Random House, Steve Donoghue
August 06, 2018

The Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

August 06, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
The Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

A thoroughly, exhaustively annotated edition of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel The Big Sleep.

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August 06, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
Raymond Chandler, Owen Hill, Pamela Jackson, Anthony Dean Rizzuto, Vintage Crime, Philip Marlowe, noir, hard-boiled detective, mystery fiction, Steve Donoghue
July 31, 2018

It’s a Mystery:  Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer

July 31, 2018/ Irma Heldman
It’s a Mystery:  Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer

This is a world-class trip with a lovable psychopath.

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July 31, 2018/ Irma Heldman/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
Aidan Truhen, Doubleday, suspense, noir, crime fiction, Irma Heldman, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, mystery fiction
February 17, 2018

Where Night Stops by Douglas Light

February 17, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Where Night Stops by Douglas Light

A nervy neo-noir with every last element tightly, fatally connected.

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February 17, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Crime & Thrillers
Douglas Light, Rare Bird Books, noir, thrillers, Steve Donoghue
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