Difficult Lives: Jim Thompson, David Goodis, Chester Himes |
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... crime or restoring moral order . Indeed , crimes were rarely solved — at best , they were understood , at less than best , compounded - and much of their power derived from a recognition that there is 4 DIFFICULT LIVES Introduction.
... crime or restoring moral order . Indeed , crimes were rarely solved — at best , they were understood , at less than best , compounded - and much of their power derived from a recognition that there is 4 DIFFICULT LIVES Introduction.
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... crime magazines . NOW AND ON EARTH had appeared in 1942 , supposedly written in ten days on a typewriter , and in a hotel room , supplied by its publisher ; HEED THE THUNDER came out four years later . NOTHING MORE THAN MURDER ( 1949 ) ...
... crime magazines . NOW AND ON EARTH had appeared in 1942 , supposedly written in ten days on a typewriter , and in a hotel room , supplied by its publisher ; HEED THE THUNDER came out four years later . NOTHING MORE THAN MURDER ( 1949 ) ...
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... crime magazines like TRUE DETECTIVE ( an interest in crime reportage remained with him throughout his life ) , and to various trade journals and pulp - fiction magazines . He worked also , peripatetically ( as he did everything else ) ...
... crime magazines like TRUE DETECTIVE ( an interest in crime reportage remained with him throughout his life ) , and to various trade journals and pulp - fiction magazines . He worked also , peripatetically ( as he did everything else ) ...
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