The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
Raymond ChandlerTag: hard-boiled noir mystery-suspense
That's what you need to be writing about. Not the increased crime rate, but the increased tolerance for criminals to do whatever they want and not be held accountable.
Diane MooreTag: christian-romance mystery-suspense
Who knew? Spies read.
Peggy Kopman-OwensTag: mystery-suspense action-adventure
In Paris, everything was fixable for the right price.
Peggy Kopman-OwensTag: travel mystery-suspense action-adventure
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Stephenie MeyerTag: horror mystery-suspense romance-funny
He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with his work, stopped writing for a period of years. When he came back it was to BLACK MASK and the other detective magazines with a curious and terrible fiction which had never been seen before in the genre markets; Hart Crane and certainly Hemingway were writing of people on the edge of their emotions and their possibility but the genre mystery markets were filled with characters whose pain was circumstantial, whose resolution was through action; Woolrich's gallery was of those so damaged that their lives could only be seen as vast anticlimax to central and terrible events which had occurred long before the incidents of the story. Hammett and his great disciple, Chandler, had verged toward this more than a little, there is no minimizing the depth of their contribution to the mystery and to literature but Hammett and Chandler were still working within the devices of their category: detectives confronted problems and solved (or more commonly failed to solve) them, evil was generalized but had at least specific manifestations: Woolrich went far out on the edge. His characters killed, were killed, witnessed murder, attempted to solve it but the events were peripheral to the central circumstances. What I am trying to say, perhaps, is that Hammett and Chandler wrote of death but the novels and short stories of Woolrich *were* death. In all of its delicacy and grace, its fragile beauty as well as its finality.
Most of his plots made no objective sense. Woolrich was writing at the cutting edge of his time. Twenty years later his vision would attract a Truffaut whose own influences had been the philosophy of Sartre, the French nouvelle vague, the central conception that nothing really mattered. At all. But the suffering. Ah, that mattered; that mattered quite a bit.
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This book is a very enjoyable read - I read it in a weekend.
Eveline Maedel
Tag: book mystery-suspense enjoyable not-without-anna
Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna," is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse.
Charlene Austin
Tag: thought-provoking gripping mystery-suspense hard-hitting teen-alcohol-and-drug-abuse
Ms. Taylor's writing style is clear, without frills, and so streamlined that her story flows and flows and flows, without taking a break, to its satisfying conclusion.
Maeve of Tara
Tag: satisfying writing-style clear mystery-suspense streamlined
For with all that is grand, grander is the expansion of the mind.
Nancy B. BrewerTag: romance france historical mystery-suspense victoiran
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