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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Francis Iles - Before The Fact

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Before the Fact by Francis Iles (A key figure in development of crime genre) is a psychological thriller that delves into the destructive p...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Sebastian Japrisot - Trap For Cinderella

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In this novel unknown woman awakens in a hospital, suffering from amnesia, head injury and severe burns. As we found out she was caught in a...
Monday, December 16, 2024

Celia Fremlin - The Long Shadow

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Imogen husband has died and now Imogen became a widow. However, when on Christmas all her relatives and friends come in curious things began...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

C.H.B. Kitchin - Birthday Party

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C.H.B. Kitchin (1895-1967) was a british novelist who also wrote detective novels. He was a wealthy man because of his inheritance and also ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Kobo Abe - The Ruined Map

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This is a fine example of metaphysical (or postmodern) crime novel. Unnamed private detective get hired by a woman to find her husband. Dete...
Friday, December 6, 2024

The Crime Novel : A Deviant Genre - Tony Hilfer

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In this book Tony Hilfer explains the crime novel as a genre of its own, contrary to classic detective novel in England and hard-boiled vari...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Dennis Lynds - Freak

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A wealthy man, owner of computer company hires Dan Fortune to find his missing son who escaped somewhere with his girl. Dan Fortune accepts ...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

R. Austin Freeman - A Certain Dr Thorndyke

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In this novel one man on a ship to Africa buries his friend and assume his identity. Then he finds on the journey home a nice girl and fall ...
Saturday, November 23, 2024

Elizabeth Sanxay Holding - Lady Killer

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Solid crime novel about group of men taking a cruise on the ship. One of them is very curious, and then finds a dead womans body in a cabin ...

Craig Rice - The Big Midget Murders

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Craig Rice (1908 - 1957) was an unusual character in history of crime fiction. She perfectly blended hard-boiled crime fiction and surreal, ...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Harry Stephen Keeler - The Five Silver Buddhas

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This is probably the weirdest crime novel that I read. It revolves around man who bought at an auction figure of buddha, and then story deve...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

A Companion To Crime Fiction - Charles J. Rzepka

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This is very informative and insightful book on crime fiction, from the 19th century to 21st century. Great explanation how crime fiction ev...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Vanishing Poinr (1971)

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Good car chase road movie about disgruntled ex-cop and driver who decides to race with his car while police are chasing him.

Rolling Thunder (1977)

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Good movie about veteran soldier from Vietnam who arrives home, but soon finds out that his house was demolished by Mexicans, and he togethe...
Saturday, September 21, 2024

Poems

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 Maggots and Flowers maggots and flowers growing from the corpses I open the door from the chapel and hideous smell overwhelms me behind the...

Accident

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  It was a hot summer evening when Ben was going home from hard work in ice-cream factory. He was crossing the street but didn't pay att...

Winter Solstice

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  Man with dark hair and green eyes was walking down the street. It was raining and strong wind was blowing, it was late evening, and street...

Haunted House

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  He came to village for a couple of days to rest himself. One house was looking interesting to him and he decided to rent it. People around...
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