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The Light of Day (Paperback)

By Eric Ambler

$15.00

ISBN: 9780375726798

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Published: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard - December 7th, 2004

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Probably page-by-page the most enjoyable of Eric (Coffin for Dimitrios) Ambler's suspense books.  International intrigue,character study, travelogue and straight thrills, narrated by the delightful, sketchy Arthur Abdel Simpson - probably Ambler's most popular creation.

Gary

George Hurrell's Hollywood: Glamour Portraits 1925-1992 (Hardcover)

By Mark A. Vieira, Sharon Stone (Foreword by)

$65.00
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ISBN: 9780762450398

Published: Running Press Adult - November 12th, 2013

An almost unbearably gorgeous book full of almost impossibly glamorous people. One of the ancillary art forms spawned by Hollywood in the studio era was the studio star portrait, and probably the master of them all was George Hurrell. Lighting, makeup and wardrobe helped, but look at what there was to work with (see freckled Joan Crawford's before-and-after portraits)!

Gary

1775: A Good Year for Revolution (Paperback)

By Kevin Phillips

$20.00
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ISBN: 9780143123996

Published: Penguin Books - September 24th, 2013

How and why did the farmers, hill people, city lawyers, wealthy plantation owners and other completely disparate peoples - some  of them extremely contrary - join the American revolution?  It's a complex, fascinating story, way beyond the handy school version, and Phillips has done a superb job of laying it all out.  A valuable addition to the ongoing historical record.

Gary

The Postman Always Rings Twice (Paperback)

By James M. Cain

$15.00

ISBN: 9780679723257

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Published: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard - May 14th, 1989

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Of the hundreds of lurid drug store paperbacks from the '30s to the '50s, the big three that live on are Hammett, Chandler and Cain.  The 1st two are seminal American detective literature.  Cain is deliciously raw noir melodrama, and Postman is...well, read the first line...   

Gary

Pineapple Grenade: A Novel (Serge Storms #15) (Paperback)

By Tim Dorsey

$16.99

ISBN: 9780061876936

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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - July 10th, 2012

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Like Carl Hiaasen, Dorsey is a native Floridian and a newsman (so he knows the way things really work under the surface).  He expresses his rage at the rampant degradation of his state with wicked, absolutely berserk humor.  Like Hiaasen dialed up to 10.

Gary

A Feast of Snakes: A Novel (Paperback)

By Harry Crews

$13.99

ISBN: 9780684842486

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Published: Touchstone - January 7th, 1998

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For the real full-bore bloodshot weird side of folk America, the late great Harry Crews is master of the stuff Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor only hinted at.

Gary

Zoo Station (A John Russell WWII Spy Thriller #1) (Paperback)

By David Downing

$9.99

ISBN: 9781616953485

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Published: Soho Crime - May 28th, 2013

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Run through all of Alan Furst?  Caught up with Philip Kerr?  Long since read the original Eric Amblers? Despair not - David Downing's British journo/spy John Russell fills the bill nicely. Zoo Station is the first of the "Station" series (the titles reference German train stations).

Gary