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Somebody’s Top Ten + 4

I noticed that Devil in a Blue Dress showed up on someone’s list of the fourteen best private eye novels of all time. I have no idea why they decided to choose fourteen, or who they polled. It’s nice that … Continue reading Continue reading

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Those were different times

Looking at the popular reception of some of these books back when they were published is kind of fun in a way because it sometimes shows them in a different light. We look at Mildred Pierce and see a hardworking … Continue reading Continue reading

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Paretsky

I had never heard of Sara Paretsky before. I knew of V.I. Warshawski from the title of a movie I never bothered to watch. The 1980′s, from whence Indemnity Only comes, seems to me to be pretty far removed from the  … Continue reading Continue reading

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