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• The Embezzler, by James M. Cain

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   Avon Book Company, 1944(Avon Murder Mystery Monthly No. 20)originally serialized as "Money and the Woman" 1938108 pppaperbackAsk someone...

• My Annihilation, by Fuminori Nakamura

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   9781641292726Soho Crime, 2021originally published as Watashi no Shometsu, 2016translated by Sam Bett257 pphardcoverMy Annihilation is yet another...

• Act of Darkness, by Francis King

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   9781948405997Valancourt Books, 2021originally published 1983305 pphardcoverI'm actually on the fence about labeling this book as crime fiction,...

• The Village of Eight Graves, by Seishi Yokomizo

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   I'm looking at the date I was last here -- September!  Yikes!   I have to say that we had an extremely rough 2021 which is actually putting it...

• A James Ellroy Double Feature: Brown's Requiem and Clandestine

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   9780593312209Vintage, 2021originally published 1981321 pppaperback (read earlier)I hadn't really intended to read more of Ellroy at the moment,...

• The Corpse in the Waxworks, by John Dickson Carr

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  "The purpose, the illusion, the spirit of a waxworks. It is an atmosphere of death." 9780712353731British Library, 2021originally...

• Puzzle for Players, by Patrick Quentin

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   Mysterious Press/Open Road, 2018originally published 1938kindle version294 ppMoving on to book #17 on the Séptimo Círculo list,  I actually...

• Midsummer Murder, by Clifford Witting

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   #16 on the Séptimo Círculo list, Clifford Witting's Midsummer Murder  brings me back to crime reading once again , although I had hoped to have...

• Magpie Murders, by Anthony Horowitz

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   9780062645234Harper Perennial, 2018495 pppaperbackI hadn't intended on reading this book just yet, but after my post about The Shooting Party  one...

• There's Trouble Brewing, by Nicholas Blake

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   9781912194025Ipso books, 2017originally published 1937paperbackThe back-cover blurb is short but succinct, and reveals that a local brewery owner...

• Catching up in double time: The Shooting Party by Anton Chekhov and Mr. Digweed and Mr. Lumb, by Eden Philpotts

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  Since I was last here there's been more calamity here at casa mia,  but things are starting to look up and life is moving on in a more positive...

• Laura, by Vera Caspary

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   read in March9780743400107ibooks, 2000236 pppaperbackI meant to post about this novel some time ago, but in between my reading of the book and...

• Death Casts a Long Shadow, by Anthony Gilbert

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  Well just crap.   I've been using the list of books from the Séptimo Círculo collection as my main crime/mystery reading guide this year; only four...

• "Criminally Addictive" -- The Abductor/The Bank With the Bamboo Door, by Dolores Hitchens

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   9781951473273Stark House, 2021275 pppaperbackAccording to the Stark House website, this new two-in-one volume from prolific but still  somewhat...

• The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem, by Rudolph Fisher

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   9780008216450Harper Collins, 2017originally published 1932293 pphardcoverIt is really sad that the author of this book, Rudolph Fisher,  died at...

• The German Client, by Bruno Morchio

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   9781948104180Kazabo Publishing, 2020originally published 2008 as Rossoamarokindle editionA few days ago I received an email from Kazabo reminding...

• Lament for a Maker, by Michael Innes

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  978191294148ipso books, 2017originally published 1938275 pppaperback"Sen for the deth remeid is non,Best that we for deth disponeEftir our...