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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
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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
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A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré
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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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City Under One Roof
Iris Yamashita
Hank Wagner
Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Hank Wagner

When body parts (primarily booted feet) start washing ashore along the Alaskan coastline, the authorities take notice, but decide that said parts must have come from the bodies of suicides or accident vi

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City Under One Roof
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Everybody Knows
Jordan Harper
Pat H. Broeske
Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Pat H. Broeske

There’s a lot of SoCal mileage traversed in Jordan Harper’s noirish Everybody Knows, as its damaged protagonists investigate a death that leads to grim discoveries in the land of palm trees and dreamer

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Everybody Knows
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