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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Joseph Wambaugh - The Choirboys

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Joseph Wambaugh served in LAPD for fourteen years after he resigned and started writing crime novels drawing inspiration from his experience...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Mickey Spillane - The Big Kill

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Mickey Spillane earned his place in crime fiction with series of novels featuring tough as nail private investigator Mike Hammer, and this n...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Porodično okupljanje

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Stanko i njegova žena Marijana vozili su putem kako bi na vreme stigli do rođaka na slavu. Stankov novi automobil, Plimut Barakuda beščujno ...
Saturday, December 3, 2022

Cop (1988)

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Decent crime movie with great performance by James Woods, based on early James Ellroy novel, is flawed and somewhat uninspiring in its tale ...

City Sleuths And Tough Guys - Crime Stories From Poe To The Present

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This is great collection of crime stories with insightful introduction by editor David Willis McCullough, in hardcover and almost 600 pages ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Woody Haut - Neon Noir : Contemporary American Crime Fiction

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This is detailed and very informative piece of theory and criticism on crime fiction from political angle, mostly about modern noir writers ...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Krađa

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Probudivši se rano ujutru, Miloš Željković posle obilnog doručka i dve kafe odlučio se da prošeta svog psa po kraju. Bio je to mladić dvades...

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

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Directed by Arthur Penn, this movie revolves around real life bank robbers excellently portrayed by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. Although...
Saturday, November 19, 2022

The Enforcer (1951)

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Good gangster movie with Humphrey Boggart as main protagonist who tries to find evidence and witnesses to accuse big time mobster, but as ea...
Friday, November 18, 2022

William P. McGivern - The Big Heat

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Very good crime novel about lonely cop who investigates suicide of fellow cop and goes too far when mob hits him, killing his wife. In his p...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Francis Durbridge - My Wife Melissa

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Good thriller with some Lynch-like surreal moments about writer and his trouble when his wife got strangled. Soon another murder occurs and ...

Victor Canning - Mask Of Memory

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Enjoyable thriller about lonely wife and his husband who is working for intelligence agency and is often not at home, while at the same time...

Leo Bruce - A Bone and a Hank Of Hair

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Enjoyable whodunit by master of the genre, Leo Bruce, tells story about dissapearance of married couple and amateur sleuth Carolus Deene who...

Peter Cheyney - Dangerous Curves

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Very good detective novel featuring charismatic private dick Slim Callaghan who goes on a hunt for spoiled son of wealthy dying man, being p...

W. R. Burnett - Goodbye, Chicago

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This is last novel by famous writer whose works were made into sucessfull gangster movies, and as such is a love letter to bygone era of 192...
Monday, October 24, 2022

They Drive By Night (1940)

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Superb movie about truckdrivers, with Humphrey Bogart in supporting role. But George Raft manages on its on in leading role, with great supp...
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Spisateljska blokada

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Mihajlo Piščević je mnogo patio zbog iznenadne spisateljske blokade koja ga je zadesila te pozne jeseni u vikendici koju je delio sa svojom ...
Monday, September 5, 2022

Dashiell Hammett - Maltese Falcon

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Although somewhat poorly written, this is milestone in crime genre, with good sense of hypocrisy and crispy language.

History of crime fiction

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Crime fiction is itself pure literature, It follows certain patterns and rules. First detective novel was written by Wilkie Collins, notorio...

Dashiell Hammett - The Glass Key

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In my opinion best novel Hammett have written. It is essentialy about friendship between politician and his sidekick who helps him get rid o...

Dashiell Hammett - The Dain Curse

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One of the underrated Hammett novels, it tells a story about family madness that turns out to be false one, with numerous comic episodes and...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Agatha Christie - They Do It With Mirrors

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Funny characters, good plot and interesting setting make this novel worth reading on a hot summer evenings. Miss Marple, elderly woman turne...
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