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AC is starting The Far Side of the Dollar (Lew Archer, #12)
A reread — I’m rereading slowly a set of the late RM’s
— May 26, 2026 11:19PM Add a comment
The Far Side of the Dollar (Lew Archer, #12)



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AC is starting Verdict of Twelve
What a hoot!

“But after Spinoza he had read Marx—a great deal of Marx, after Marx some of Lenin, and after Lenin a very little Stalin, for by then his appetite for this literature was sated. For his Socialism or Communism (he varied the word according to his company) was not economic in origin, but emotional: his real teachers were Auden, Isherwood, Lewis and Spender…”
— May 23, 2026 09:53PM Add a comment
Verdict of Twelve



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AC is starting The Annotated Big Sleep
“If Superman or John Wayne is the Zeus of American myth, and Marilyn Monroe is Aphrodite, then Marlowe is Prometheus: the noble outsider, sacrificing and enduring for a code he alone upholds.”
— May 20, 2026 07:54AM Add a comment
The Annotated Big Sleep

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AC is 63% done with Constable Guard Thyself (Inspector Poole Series Book 121)
A really outstanding book. One of the earliest *true* police procedurals that I’ve run across.
— May 19, 2026 06:54PM Add a comment
Constable Guard Thyself (Inspector Poole Series Book 121)


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AC is 53% done with Crime Fiction Since 1800: Detection, Death, Diversity
His section on hard-boiled fiction is short, but suggestive, and it is much better than his more survey-like account of Golden Age Detection.
— May 17, 2026 02:33PM Add a comment
Crime Fiction Since 1800: Detection, Death, Diversity



















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