Also recently orderedfrom the Barnes & Noble website.
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
Also recently orderedfrom the Barnes & Noble website.
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
Aside from the crimes of the times (and the very violent clashes between the unions and management back in those earlier days of the century), Hammett also enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War I ("The Great War") where he served in the Motor Ambulance Corps.
Not exactly a bucolic life/world.
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Today I stopped by Barnes & Nobel and wound up buying
Turns out they were doing a special where Barnes & Noble members received a membership discount of 20% instead of the usual 10% from Thursday the 17th through Sunday the 20th, but it may have been just at my location.
Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery by James R. Benn (Soho Press - 2006)
Finished Gore Vidal’s Thieves Fall Out.
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It was a fun read, surely a book of its time, but fun nevertheless.
Today I put in an order through Barnes & Noble for
And I'm currently reading
The Way Some People Die by Ross Macdonald
(orig. © 1951 / Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition July 2007)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/b...9780307278982/
I'm a huge mystery/thriller fan. So much so that I somehow stumbled my way into writing reviews for Mystery Scene magazine.
The latest book that I've finished reading was the upcoming Michael Connelly book Dark Sacred Night. I got an advance copy of it sent to me from the magazine and will be writing the review of it for the magazine.
Beth Hart - Fire On The Floor CD Review
Beth Hart February 23rd, 2017 Boston, MA Concert Review
"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
Those Hardcase Crime novels are real beauties.
Currently listening to Ian Rankin's audiobooks during long drives and loved Nic Pizzolatto's Galveston (but damn it was depressing, poetic though)
Here's three reviews I wrote that got printed in the new issue of Mystery Scene magazine.
Marcia Muller - The Breakers
Peter Blauner - Sunrise Highway
R.J. Jagger - Shot Of Love
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Beth Hart - Fire On The Floor CD Review
Beth Hart February 23rd, 2017 Boston, MA Concert Review
"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
I don't know if this counts because it's part of the Mignolaverse, but I bought Lobster John : The Satan Factory, but I haven't had the chance to read it yet. It's in my "to read" pile.
I've heard it is really good.
“Now faith, hope, and love remain, and the greatest of these is love.”--1 Corinthians 13:13
“You had a dream; I have a plan”--Cyclops
“There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.”--The Doctor
If you like Cozy Mysteries, or even Mystery in general, this site is an invaluable resource.
And btw, I think this is the best rundown of the differences between Mystery, Crime Fiction and Thrillers.
It really helps to pinpoint which types of Mystery/Crime Fiction you're most interested in.
For instance, under Mystery I prefer 'Cozy' and 'Hard-Boiled', but don't really care for the others.
With Crime, I'm really only interested in 'Noir'. And then mostly just in black and white film.
And in Thrillers, I don't care much for the genre, itself, but I do like Supernatural or Psychological Thrillers. Moreso if it's a combination of the two.
"There's magic in the sound of analog audio." - CNET.
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"There's magic in the sound of analog audio." - CNET.
As for myself, I just started reading the first volume of Dynamite's Sherlock Holmes...
I noticed that they just wrapped up a new volume by Leah Moore, but I was kinda turned off by the art.
But at least it shows they're still doing stuff with the character.
And I've also started re-reading Sandman Mystery Theatre. This time I plan to finish it and also read the Madame Xanadu story.
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"There's magic in the sound of analog audio." - CNET.
Yesterday I put in an order through Barnes & Noble for
The Archer Files: The Complete Short Stories of Lew Archer, Private Investigator by Ross Macdonald
And at a book sale I picked up:
both by Frederick Nebel (and priced at $2.00 (US) each).
The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Volume 1: 1931-32
and
Tough as Nails: The Complete Cases of Donahue from the Pages of Black Mask