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City Under One Roof
Iris Yamashita
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Iris
Yamashita
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The Big Bundle
Max Allan Collins
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Max Allan
Collins
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Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight
Jacob Agner and Harriet Pollack, eds.
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Jacob
Agner and Harriet Pollack, eds.
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The Lipstick Bureau
Michelle Gable
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Gable
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A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Mark Dawidziak
Pat H. Broeske
Friday, 02 June 2023
Pat H. Broeske

The ultimate mystery man, Edgar Allan Poe, gets the investigative treatment from Mark Dawidziak, whose many books include examinations of pop culture faves Columbo and the Night Stalker. Also a Mark Twai

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A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
1250792495
Dawidziak
Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight
Jacob Agner and Harriet Pollack, eds.
Pat H. Broeske
Monday, 27 March 2023
Pat H. Broeske

One of the most significant authors of American Southern literature—a revered clan that includes William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Tennessee Williams, and Robert Penn Warren—Eudora Welty and her writ

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Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight
1496842707
Agner and Harriet Pollack, eds.
The Big Bundle
Max Allan Collins
Hank Wagner
Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Hank Wagner

Opening in October 1953, Max Allan Collins’ 18th Nathan Heller adventure finds the middle-aged detective in Kansas City, consulting on a kidnapping, this time involving Bobby Greenlease, the 6-year-ol

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The Big Bundle
1789098521
Collins
Roots of Film Noir: Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s
Kevin Grant
Pat H. Broeske
Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Pat H. Broeske

There are so many books on the subject that it’s sometimes difficult to discern one from the other, so kudos to author Kevin Grant, for breaking new ground with Roots of Film Noir: Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940

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Roots of Film Noir: Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s
147668748X
Grant
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré
John le Carré
Dick Lochte
Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Dick Lochte

Among the 200 or so letters by the late author of such acclaimed novels as The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, curated by his son (alas, now also late as of last May 30),

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A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré
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