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Mister Rainbow in the Case of the Horses for Corpses

By nagaisayonara

16 June, 2014

Written by CS Boag — The Case of the Horses for Corpses is the third in CS Boag’s Mister Rainbow series, a collection about a classic hardboiled PI living in modern day Sydney. Mister Rainbow (or Rain for short) is a down-and-out private eye in…

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Borderline by Lawrence Block

By nagaisayonara

5 June, 2014

If you’re not familiar with Lawrence Block’s work – and you should be, we’ve reviewed a whole stack of it here at Crime Fiction Lover – all I can say is be prepared. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. The four stories in this collection…

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Hot Lead, Cold Iron by Ari Marmell

By RoughJustice

2 June, 2014

Mick Oberon belongs to the classic school of the pulp PI. He works out of a cramped office with two chairs and a battered filing cabinet. His cases don’t bring in much money, and it sure isn’t glamorous traipsing the mean streets of 1930s Chicago…

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White Rabbit by KA Laity

By DeathBecomesHer

28 May, 2014

Feeling safe and secure in your world of hardboiled noir? Happy and content to read tales of urban murder and mayhem? Then it’s time to take a step out of your comfort zone and into the madcap brain of author KA Laity who has written…

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King of the Weeds by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

By RoughJustice

23 May, 2014

Once again, Max Allan Collins reprises his role as literary executor and with King of the Weeds he has completed another of Mickey Spillane’s unfinished manuscripts. Whereas the last two books produced in this fashion – Lady, Go Die! and Complex 90 – went further…

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Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris

By RoughJustice

3 May, 2014

Charlaine Harris is known as the writer of the Southern Vampire Mysteries which is the basis of the popular TV series True Blood. And the promotional material that came through with Midnight Crossroad does suggest that there is a supernatural element to the mystery. So,…

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Death Money by Henry Chang

By RoughJustice

8 April, 2014

Soho Press returns with the fourth instalment featuring the New York Chinese-American police detective Jack Yu. Yu is on the way to see the department psychiatrist after being involved in a shooting from a previous case when he gets a call from the Thirty-Second precinct….

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The Wrong Quarry

By RoughJustice

3 February, 2014

Written by Max Allan Collins — One of America’s leading modern pulp crime authors, Max Allan Collins has been writing Quarry stories since back in 1976. The series began with The Broker, and the most recent one was 2010’s Quarry’s Ex. Now, the hitman hero/anti-hero…

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Mister Rainbow in the Case of the Horses for Corpses

Borderline by Lawrence Block

Hot Lead, Cold Iron by Ari Marmell

White Rabbit by KA Laity

King of the Weeds by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris

Death Money by Henry Chang

The Wrong Quarry

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