tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50605195423282224862024-03-13T01:03:27.373-07:0050 Essential Mysteries: A Hamden Public Library Discussion ForumDuring the winter of 2018, participants in Hamden Public Library's 'Cozy Up to a Mystery' adult winter reading activities will explore Flavorwire's '50 Essential Mystery Novels That Everyone Should Read'. This blog provides a place for readers to share their responses to and opinions of the books they read. (Book descriptions courtesy of Flavorwire.com.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-15386350996720332342017-08-28T08:57:00.002-07:002017-08-28T10:45:33.540-07:00Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Really, you
should read this as <i>all the Sherlock Holmes stories</i>, but choices have to
be made. This one is a classic among classics because it manages to be both a
great story and a particularly interesting take on Holmes and Watson’s dynamic,
wherein the former disappears and the latter deduces. Holmes is better at
deducing. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43?/thound+of+the+baskervilles/thound+of+the+baskervilles/1%2C3%2C12%2CB/exact&FF=thound+of+the+baskervilles&1%2C10%2C/indexsort=-">Library catalog link.</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-66349555452393967712017-08-28T08:56:00.003-07:002017-08-28T10:47:22.146-07:00Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Again, <i>read everything
Sayers has ever written</i>. Ahem, please excuse those hysterical italics. Her
Lord Peter Wimsey novels, of which <i>Gaudy Night</i> is one, are particularly
wonderful, not least for Harriet Vane, everyone’s favorite ass-kicking mystery
novelist, nor for its double duty as a philosophical novel. “How fleeting are
all human passions compared to the massive continuity of ducks.” <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=t&searcharg=gaudy+night&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=thound+of+the+baskervilles">Library catalog link.</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-11535406464645200072017-08-28T08:55:00.001-07:002017-08-28T10:54:02.844-07:00A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A classic
mystery with a postmodern twist: a protagonist who is also a mystery novelist,
the result being that this 1939 novel is as much a comment on the genre (and
even the genre to come) as it is a particularly delightful example of it. Plus:
James Bond has been spotted reading it. Can’t get a better endorsement for a
spy novel than that. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=t&searcharg=coffin+for+dimitrios&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tthe+maltese+falcon">Library catalog link.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-82712808387582991342017-08-28T08:54:00.000-07:002017-08-28T10:50:58.153-07:00Arthur & George by Julian Barnes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This
novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker in 2005, is a delightful retelling
of a real-life mystery (the “Great Wyrley Outrages”) that Sherlock Holmes creator
Arthur Conan Doyle actually solved at the turn of the 20th century! And a
luminous </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">book
(what else would you expect from Barnes?) to boot.<a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=t&searcharg=arthur+%26+george&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tcoffin+for+dimitrios"> Library catalog link.</a> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-83130511063884336742017-08-28T08:52:00.003-07:002017-08-28T10:51:55.625-07:00The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Setting aside
its women problems (rampant amongst the hardboiled detective novel), there’s no
denying that this is a thrilling, complex classic worthy of inclusion on any
list. Plus, it’s where we meet Philip Marlowe for the very first time. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43?/tbig+sleep/tbig+sleep/1%2C4%2C6%2CB/exact&FF=tbig+sleep&1%2C3%2C/indexsort=-">Library catalog link.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-22630778823712576762017-08-28T08:51:00.003-07:002017-08-28T10:52:58.192-07:00The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This might just
be the greatest hardboiled detective novel ever published in this country. Yes,
still. Immensely influential, immensely entertaining, and excellently written,
it is both a rollicking example of the genre and transcendent of the same. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43?/tthe+maltese+falcon/tmaltese+falcon/1%2C5%2C10%2CB/exact&FF=tmaltese+falcon&1%2C6%2C/indexsort=-">Library catalog link</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-57861643398429156342017-08-28T08:50:00.004-07:002017-08-28T10:55:44.666-07:00Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A thrilling
classic from the grand dame of mystery. It was tempting to choose <i>And Then
There Were None</i>, which still stands as the best-selling mystery novel of
all time, but <i>Orient</i> is not only better but also features the detective
Hercule Poirot, Christie’s most famous creation and the only fictional
character to have gotten an obituary in <i>The New York Times</i>.<a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43?/tmurder+on+the+orient+express/tmurder+on+the+orient+express/1%2C4%2C9%2CB/exact&FF=tmurder+on+the+orient+express&1%2C5%2C/indexsort=-"> Library catalog link</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-5401327902137778512017-08-28T08:49:00.003-07:002017-08-28T10:57:28.549-07:00An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A kick-ass lady
detective in the ‘70s? Yes, please. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=t&searcharg=unsuitable+job+for+a+woman&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tmurder+on+the+orient+express">Library catalog link.</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-596899263881415392017-08-28T08:48:00.002-07:002017-08-28T10:59:29.689-07:00The Complete Auguste Dupin Stories by Edgar Allan Poe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That’s right,
you sleuth: this is not a novel, but you’re going to have to allow me this one
cheat on Poe’s account. After all, Poe basically invented the genre, and “The
Murders in the Rue Morgue,” in which Dupin first appears, is widely considered
the first-ever detective story, and influenced all that came after. And
besides, Arthur Conan Doyle basically took Dupin and his unnamed confidante,
slapped pretty names on them, dropped them off in London, and created the
largest detective franchise of all time. Plus: these stories are amazing. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=X&searcharg=auguste+dupin&searchscope=43&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tcomplete+auguste+dupin+stories">Library catalog link. </a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-69372407991163322492017-08-28T08:47:00.001-07:002017-08-28T11:00:27.175-07:00Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In this
mystery-cum-Gothic romance, a young woman marries an older man only to be
plunged into the swirling secrets surrounding his first wife’s demise. Another
classic of every genre. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=X&searcharg=rebecca+du+maurier&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=Xauguste+dupin%26SORT%3DD">Library catalog link</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-88791888716838621792017-08-28T08:46:00.001-07:002017-08-28T11:01:15.763-07:00The Alienist by Caleb Carr<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The absolute
pinnacle of historical crime fiction. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=t&searcharg=the+alienist&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=Xrebecca+du+maurier%26SORT%3DDZ">Library catalog link.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-21355358626766756632017-08-28T08:45:00.002-07:002017-08-28T11:02:20.524-07:00The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
speculative mystery features all the classics of noir: an arranged accident, a
scapegoat, elevator inspectors. Er, maybe that last bit is more unusual.
Whitehead’s excellent detective novel, set during an alternative version of the
Harlem Renaissance, investigates race and society as well as being a terribly
good story.<a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=t&searcharg=the+intuitionist&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tthe+alienist"> Library catalog link. </a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-56746794004936576252017-08-28T08:44:00.002-07:002017-08-28T11:03:34.301-07:00The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here’s another
compelling mystery set in an alternative version of the universe we know, this
one featuring one of the best homicide detectives you’ll meet in any medium and
not a little investigation of Judaism. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43?/tthe+yiddish+policemen%27s+union/tyiddish+policemens+union/1%2C2%2C5%2CB/exact&FF=tyiddish+policemens+union+a+novel&1%2C4%2C/indexsort=-">Library catalog link.</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-83371542087230059402017-08-28T08:43:00.002-07:002017-08-28T11:07:31.181-07:00When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ishiguro
uses the trappings of the detective novel to get at the thing that always
fascinates him: the swirling inner workings of a mind ill at ease. Uneven but
mesmerizing and sometimes brilliant, this deconstructionist’s detective story
investigates the investigator. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=t&searcharg=when+we+were+orphans&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tthe+yiddish+policemen%27s+union">Library catalog link.</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-87041938988806351012017-08-28T08:42:00.000-07:002017-08-28T13:32:46.989-07:00A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The first in
Himes’ legendary series of crime noir introduces us to Coffin Ed Johnson and
Grave Digger Jones and the dirty, rampaging, blood-soaked streets of their
Harlem. A giant of the genre. </span><a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=t&searcharg=a+rage+in+harlem&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=anotaro%2C+tig" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Library catalog link. </a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-519721660188229162017-08-28T08:40:00.001-07:002017-08-28T11:10:10.603-07:00The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sometimes cited
as the first true mystery novelist, Collins is a must, and this book is as
gripping as they come. A nod should go to his later work <i>The Moonstone</i>,
too, which T.S. Eliot called the “first and greatest of English detective
novels,” but falls just below <i>The Woman in White</i> on this reader’s
personal radar. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43?/tthe+woman+in+white/twoman+in+white/1%2C2%2C5%2CB/exact&FF=twoman+in+white&1%2C4%2C/indexsort=-">Library catalog link</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-85203223941711191762017-08-28T08:35:00.003-07:002017-08-28T11:14:12.799-07:00Dust and Shadow by Lyndsay Faye<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sherlock Holmes
will continue to skulk around this list, and good luck to anyone trying to stop
him. Faye’s <i>Dust and Shadow</i> is a prime example of what a Holmes pastiche
can do when it’s really, really good — solve the Jack the Ripper murders, for
instance. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=t&searcharg=dust+and+shadow&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tdust+and+shadow">Library catalog link.</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-86606861985315525872017-08-28T08:32:00.003-07:002017-08-28T11:16:01.982-07:00The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">One of
contemporary fiction’s established greats, Auster uses the convention of the
detective to get at something else entirely, creating his own, meta-detective
genre and twisting the reader inside and out in the process. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=t&searcharg=new+york+trilogy&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tdust+and+shadow">Library catalog link. </a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-69427827511575823322017-08-28T08:22:00.004-07:002017-08-28T11:17:03.528-07:00Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In this novel,
one of the best of Mosley’s many great books and the first of his Easy Rawlins
mysteries, an unemployed World War II vet gets a strange job offer: to find a
missing woman. So begins a truly great series of mysteries. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=t&searcharg=devil+in+a+blue+dress&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tnew+york+trilogy">Library catalog link. </a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-65264798328804569612017-08-28T08:19:00.001-07:002017-08-28T11:17:58.074-07:00The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The classic <i>roman
noir</i> from one of the genre’s founding fathers. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=t&searcharg=postman+always+rings+twice&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tdevil+in+a+blue+dress">Library catalog link</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-9619346039744329802017-08-25T11:09:00.003-07:002017-08-28T11:18:54.297-07:00The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John Le Carre<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A spy novel
that reinvented spies in literature — and questioned the morality of just about
everyone. Possibly the best spy novel ever written. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=t&searcharg=the+spy+who+came+in+from+the+cold&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tpostman+always+rings+twice"> Library catalog link. </a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-16729656447359575012017-08-25T11:07:00.001-07:002017-08-28T11:19:50.245-07:00Fadeout by Joseph Hansen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In 1970, Hansen
gave us Dave Brandstetter, the first openly gay private eye in the mystery
genre. “When I sat down to write ‘Fadeout’ in 1967, I wanted to write a good,
compelling whodunit, but I also wanted to right some wrongs,” Hansen said.
“Almost all the folksay about homosexuals is false. So I had some fun turning
clichés and stereotypes on their heads in that book. It was easy.” In this wry
and rollicking novel, he accomplished that and more. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=t&searcharg=fadeout&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tthe+spy+who+came+in+from+the+cold">Library catalog link</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-16089662839941796922017-08-25T11:05:00.004-07:002017-08-28T11:20:46.129-07:00The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Everyone’s
favorite historical murder mystery set in a monastery, this big, postmodern
novel is smart as hell and twice as entertaining. <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=t&searcharg=the+name+of+the+rose&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tfadeout">Library catalog link.</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-9963702970231869022017-08-25T11:03:00.001-07:002017-08-28T11:23:43.548-07:00The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rinehart is
known as the “American Agatha Christie,” though her first novel predates
Christie’s by about 14 years. <i>The Circular Staircase</i> is widely
considered the first in the “Had-I-But-Known” school of murder mystery writing,
and is also widely considered to be amazing. Plus, she’s the person who
originated the phrase “the butler did it.” Can’t argue with that.<a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43/?searchtype=t&searcharg=the+circular+staircase&searchscope=43&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tthe+name+of+the+rose"> Library catalog link.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060519542328222486.post-2892046935398286172017-08-25T11:01:00.002-07:002017-08-28T11:36:00.162-07:00True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This novel (by
Joan Didion’s husband!) is a lyrical, literary mystery about a mysterious
murder based on the “Black Dahlia” case in LA. So good it transcends any label
you’d care to throw at it, other than “amazing.” <a href="http://catalog.lioninc.org/search~S43?/ttrue+confessions/ttrue+confessions/1%2C2%2C6%2CB/exact&FF=ttrue+confessions+a+novel&1%2C2%2C/indexsort=-">Library catalog link</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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