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CIS: My classics by Joe Hefferon

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Joe Hefferon is a New Jersey writer turning what he knows about real detective work after serving 25 years on the force into noir-inspired crime fiction. We reviewed his novel The Last Meridian here, and in November his new book, Countdown to Osaka, hits the…
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CIS: The Big Sleep revisited

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It’s impossible to imagine a proper historical survey of noir fiction without reference to Philip Marlowe, the iconic character created by Raymond Chandler in his ground-breaking 1939 debut novel The Big Sleep. Marlowe is the prototypical hardboiled private eye. Street-smart and tough, he reads people and situations at…
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CIS: My classics by Rachel Howzell Hall

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With the crime fiction genre now so well established and popular, today’s authors have plenty of places to turn for inspiration. Rachel Howzell Hall is the up-and-coming Los Angeles author behind Land of Shadows, an adroit police procedural of uncanny quality that had RoughJustice staggered…
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