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Murder Is Our Peculiar Pastime: Fifty Notable American Crime Novels: 25-26

BY MARTIN KICH Higgins, George V.  The Friends of Eddie Coyle.  New York: Knopf, 1972. In 1985, the Book Marketing Council selected The Friends of Eddie Coyle as one of the top twenty postwar American novels.  Higgins’ debut effort, the novel has  been translated into Danish, Finnish, Flemish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Turkish.  It…

September 9, 2016 in Diversions.

Murder Is Our Peculiar Pastime: Fifty Notable American Crime Novels: 5-6.

Burke, James Lee.  A Morning for Flamingoes.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1990. In James Lee Burke’s novels featuring Dave Robicheaux, the Louisiana setting is a character as vividly drawn as the protagonist himself. The bayou country is, at once, a lush paradise and the dismal swamp. The plantation architecture harks back to an ante-bellum splendor or…

August 7, 2015 in Faculty.

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