The Long Goodbye (1953) is a milestone in the genre. This novel demonstrated for the first time that hard-boiled fiction could serve as a vehicle for social comment and critique. While the apparent plot is slower paced and less metaphoric than...
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Автор: Persson Leif Gustav Willy
Серия: Story of a Crime #3
Язык: английский
Год: 2014
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From the grand master of Scandinavian crime fiction – and one of the best crime writers of our time – a new critically acclaimed novel centered around the unsolved murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986. It's August 2007, and Lars...
Автор: Уэстерсон Джери
Серия: Crispin Guest Medieval Noir #6
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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Near the outset of Hamilton's well-crafted second Abigail Adams mystery (after 2009's The Ninth Daughter), 16-year-old Lucy Fluckner comes to Abigail for help. A good friend of Lucy's, 24-year-old bookseller Harry Knox, who...
When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiancé home to Lochdubh, the whole town is delighted – save perhaps for love-smitten bobby Hamish Macbeth. But the morning after a posh engagement party, one of the guests, Captain...
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The Statuette Of...
Matthew Hope spots her on Saturday, exquisitely beautiful, strolling topless on the beach. On Monday, she shows up in his law office, beaten and bruised, ready to file for divorce. By Tuesday, she is dead — and her big, ugly husband is arrested...