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 Amazon.com Review: Devastated by her lover's death in a slaying that was her fault, Aud Torvingen has sequestered herself in an isolated Appalachian cabin she's painstakingly rebuilding. Grief is Aud's only companion--a grief so acutely and powerfully [... more]
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Westerfield's Chain: A Mystery
A Must: This is a good mystery, very readable, and it flows along very nicely; difficult to put down. The story is about a disenchaned former cop, now getting by doing P.I. work for law firms, who stumbles into a much bigger, more complex case than he [... more]
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The Little Sister: A Novel
Excellent: THE LITTLE SISTER is terrific mystery that concludes with a gruesome incident of sudden (albeit implausible) poetic justice. By my count, TLS has five murders and a suicide, with Philip Marlowe a step too slow to prevent any crime but way [... more]
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Promised Land
Strong prose, well written: The prose is well-written, the characterizations are vivid and the whole story fits together like a hand in a glove. That said, much of the book is filled with rhetorical politicalization - which, admittedly, was much the [... more]
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The Lady in the Lake: A Novel
Philip Marlowe Finds Another Body...: The Lady in the Lake is one of Chandler's best. Philip Marlowe finds a body--but whose body is it? Laced with Chandler's wry commentary on everything from rich dames to down and out war veterans, this book is an [... more]
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The High Window: A Novel
The high bar: I love Raymond Chandler. And Marlowe, the joke cracking private eye who's tough on the outside and golden on the inside and who would be cliched except he's the original everyone else copied...it's vintage noir, hard-boiled action, the [... more]
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The Big Sleep: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: "His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock." Published in 1939, when Raymond Chandler was 50, [... more]
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The Getaway Man
Taut Writing and Great Plot: This book is terrific, and tells a great story about a guy who loves cars, and loves to drive. But even beyond how much I liked the story, is how much I respect Vachss' writing style, and his research quality. All of the car [... more]
$6.99
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The Simple Art of Murder
I Read It Until the Book Fell Apart: I am commenting on the present book not the older 1968 version. Some other people are commenting on the old book. Before you read all the other comments here, please be clear that this book is not like Chandler's [... more]
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Playback: A Novel
Only For the Diehard Marlowephile: "Playback" is Chandler's least of everything. It's his least funny, least compelling, and least believable novel. Most Chandler/Marlowe novels stretch credulity in the big picture by using far-fetched [... more]
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Farewell, My Lovely: A Novel
A Lyrical Must-Read: According to Wikipedia, FAREWELL, MY LOVELY (1940) was Raymond Chandler's second novel and created from three short stories--"The Man Who Liked Dogs" (1936), "Try the Girl" (1937), and "Mandarin's Jade" ( [... more]
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Soul Circus
Amazon.com Review: George Pelecanos's Washington, D.C., is a place rife with high-living drug dealers, easily obtained guns, and a generation depleted by ignorance, excessive machismo, and misplaced trust in the equalizing power of violence. Yet PI Derek [... more]
$7.50
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