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What do readers say about The Sins of the Fathers?
clean and flows raw and gritty more cerebral than action-packed pulp fiction styleThe pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer-a minister's son-hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search o... More details on The Sins of the Fathers
He was a big man, about my height with a little more flesh on his heavy frame. His eyebrows, arched and prominent, were still black. The hair on his head was iron gray, combed straight back, giving hi...
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What do readers say about Gun Monkeys?
spare and authentic pulp fiction-style gangster satire noir crime fiction matter of fact toneCharlie Swift just pumped three .38-caliber bullets into a dead polar bear in his taxidermist girlfriend's garage. But he's a gun monkey, and no one can blame him for having an itchy trigger finger. Ever since he drove down the Florida Turnpike with ... More details on Gun Monkeys
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What do readers say about Cop Hater?
police procedural novel matter of fact style gritty crime novel interesting to readTHE HEROES OF THE CITY'S STREETS BECOME THE HUNTED - IN THIS CRIME FICTION CLASSIC
ED MCBAIN'S FIRST 87th PRECINCT NOVEL
Swift, silent, and deadly - someone is knocking off the 87th Precinct's finest, one by one. The how of the killings is obvious: t... More details on Cop Hater
He reached out for it, groping in the darkness, finding the lever and pressing it against the back of the clock. The buzzing stopped. The room was very silent. Beside him, he could hear May’s even bre...
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What do readers say about The Time Traveler's Wife?
clear and straightforward separation, loneliness, waiting detailed and realistic love, loneliness, and loss*A People Top Ten Book of the Year* The beloved, mega bestselling first novel from Audrey Niffenegger, "a soaring celebration of the victory of love over time" (Chicago Tribune).
A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry D... More details on The Time Traveler's Wife
Clare: The first time it happens Henry is away. It's the eighth week of the pregnancy. The baby is the size of a plum, has a face and hands and a beating heart. It is early evening, early summer, and ...
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What do readers say about The Beasts of Tarzan?
classic pulp fiction florid style and cliffhangers fast paced giant apesThe third novel of Edgar Rice Burroughs classic character Tarzan. When Tarzan's infant son is kidnapped by old enemies Tarzan gives chase but falls into their trap and is exiled on an African island. Tarzan must use all of his jungle skills to track ... More details on The Beasts of Tarzan
"The entire affair is shrouded in mystery," saidD'Arnot. "I have it on the best of authority that neither thepolice nor the special agents of the general staff have thefaintest conception of how it wa...
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What do readers say about The Big Sleep?
twisty and interesting fresh, fulsome and gritty it flows nicely hard-boiled detective novelThe iconic first novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times).
A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two... More details on The Big Sleep
IT WAS ABOUT ELEVEN O’CLOCK in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt...
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What do readers say about The Maltese Falcon?
clean and engaging exquisitely plotted and economically short crisp and economical a one-of-a-kind artifactA coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.
A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ... More details on The Maltese Falcon
Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The v mot...
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What do readers say about H.P Lovecraft?
good old fashioned horror dense, outdated prose library of america the book itself"The Call of Cthulhu," first published in the magazine Weird Tales in 1928. The creature is described as "a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigio... More details on H.P Lovecraft
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it ...
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What do readers say about The Killer Inside Me?
hardboiled detective genre muddled and cloudy first person narrative vintage crime novelIn The Killer Inside Me, America's "Dimestore Dostoevsky" Jim Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson and Brett Easton Ellis's America... More details on The Killer Inside Me
I’d finished my pie and was having a second cup of coffee when I saw him. The midnight freight had come in a few minutes before; and he was peering in one end of the restaurant window, the end nearest...
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What do readers say about A Princess of Mars?
fast paced book old-school science fiction pulp fiction space western stilted, overly manly proseVirginia gentleman John Carter, unexpectedly transported to the perilous red planet, Mars, finds himself captured by the loveless Green Men of Thark. As Carter struggles to win his freedom-and the affections of fellow captive Dejah Thoris, princess o... More details on A Princess of Mars
I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollect...
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