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The PI Case Files - Part 3

By DavidPrestidge

8 November, 2013

We’re getting deeper into the Crime Fiction Lover filing cabinet. This week, The PI Case Files brings you three more American greats in the genre including the private detective who started it all. Read on as we continue our series looking at the 12 greatest…

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Classics in September 2013 - a recap

By crimefictionlover

30 September, 2013

Our second annual month celebrating the classics of crime fiction has come to an end. We hope you’ve enjoyed it. It started off with one of the Queens of the Golden age, Dorothy L Sayers, and ended with a slightly lesser known Golden Age author…

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CIS: Black Mask returns

By Jeremy Megraw

23 September, 2013

One of the highlights of crime fiction publishing this year has to be the re-publication of the legendary pulp fiction magazine Black Mask. Thanks to MysteriousPress.com, Black Mask is going digital, making the magazine’s original content accessible to a whole new generation of readers. Readers…

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CIS: One for Hell by Jada M Davis

By RoughJustice

16 September, 2013

You can be forgiven for wondering where we dug this one up, if you’ve never heard of One for Hell. I must confess it had flown under my radar. I became aware of it reading Heath Lowrance’s blog, Psychonoir, and it seems he first heard…

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The Last Whisper in the Dark

By DavidPrestidge

1 August, 2013

Is your brother a deranged serial killer? No? Well you can’t have everything in life. Terry Rand has. His brother Collie ticked all the psychotic and homicidal boxes. But even though Collie has been disposed of via lethal injection, there remain too many family complexities…

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The Last Whisper in the Dark

By RoughJustice

17 July, 2013

Last year’s literary crime thriller The Last Kind Words went down a storm with us. We reviewed it and gave it five stars, and MyBookishWays included it in her top five books of 2012. In that book career, thief Terrier Rand was called home to…

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DispatchesFromNoir: the five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By DispatchesFromNoir

7 June, 2013

I’ve been reading crime fiction almost since I learned to read. My tastes in crime fiction have changed markedly over the years, but that’s the great thing about this genre. It grows and evolves with us, always offering top-notch writing in many different styles. Encyclopedia…

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Complex 90 by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

By RoughJustice

11 May, 2013

Titan Books and Mickey Spillane’s literary executor Max Allan Collins are back, and they’ve completed and released another unfinished Mike Hammer novel from the archives. We reviewed Lady, Go Die! last year, gave it four stars, and interviewed Collins about the process of completing Spillane’s…

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The PI Case Files - Part 3

Classics in September 2013 - a recap

CIS: Black Mask returns

CIS: One for Hell by Jada M Davis

The Last Whisper in the Dark

The Last Whisper in the Dark

DispatchesFromNoir: the five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

Complex 90 by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

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