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November 15, 2017

Book Review: The Big Book of the Continental Op

November 15, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

All of Dashiell Hammett's stories and novels featuring the Continental Op, collected in one volume for the first time.

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November 15, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
Dashiell Hammett, fiction, November 2017, Steve Donoghue
June 30, 2012

A Measure of the Master: Georges Simenon's romans durs

June 30, 2012/ John McIntyre

The inventor of the beloved Inspector Maigret was gigantically prolific - hundreds of novels, churned out at lightning speed (80 pages a day, according to the author himself) - and in this as in many other things, Georges Simenon was a world unto himself.

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Fiction, Literary Criticism
Dashiell Hammett, fiction, July 2012, literary criticism
January 31, 2011

A Woman of High Courage

January 31, 2011/ Rohan Maitzen

For nearly three decades, Sara Paretsky has used the familiar form of the private eye novel to turn a critical eye on contemporary America. Rohan Maitzen reviews the latest in her V.I. Warshawski series.

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January 31, 2011/ Rohan Maitzen/
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Book Review, Dashiell Hammett, February 2011, fiction, literary criticism, New York Times, rohan maitzen
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