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Interview: Russel D McLean

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British PI fiction has undergone something of a renaissance of late, with a raft of new young writers taking on the classic American form and reworking it to reflect the social and economic landscape of the UK. Russel D McLean is definitely at the forefront…
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CIS: A Raymond Chandler primer

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Raymond Chandler was 44 years old when he lost his job as an oil company executive in 1932. This is one job loss we can cheer for, since it’s the reason Chandler began writing. His very first short story was printed in Black Mask, a…
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CIS: The top five women of noir

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Classics in September — Several months ago we discussed five of the best American novelists currently writing in the hardboiled tradition. All of the writers featured in that piece are top-notch crime authors – but they also had something else in common: they were all…
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Interview: Darren Shan

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Have you ever woken up to find a werewolf gnawing at your foot? It could well happen if you were a character in one of the numerous supernatural and horror-tastic books Darren Shan has written over the last decade or so. The Irish writer –…
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Let the Devil Sleep

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Written by John Verdon – Detective Dave Gurney is a living legend. He was once an eminent NYPD homicide detective. Now he’s retired, but that doesn’t stop him from solving crimes and foiling homicidal sociopaths. Let the Devil Sleep is the third of Gurney’s adventures,…
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A Private Venus

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Written by Giorgio Scerbanenco – Giorgio Scerbanenco was an important figure in postwar Italian crime fiction, but is little known to English-speaking audiences because his novels were never translated into English. Hersilia Press is seeking to rectify our ignorance of Scerbanenco and other Italian crime…
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Interview: Ariel S Winter

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Ariel S Winter’s first novel The Twenty-Year Death is bound to appeal to fans of the mid-20th century noir and hardboiled crime fiction we often cover on the site. Formerly a librarian, a bookseller and even a pie man, he’s now the published author he…
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