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Only to Sleep Lawrence Osborne
December 4, 2018

Only To Sleep by Lawrence Osborne

Review by Basil Ransome-Davies A short walk from my ergonomic study chair is my Chandler bookshelf. It includes some Philip Marlowe fiction not by…

August 9, 2016

For All the Gold in the World by Massimo Carlotto

Translated by Antony Shugaar Reviewed by Terence Jagger This is ‘an Alligator mystery’, latest in a series featuring an independent and unlicensed private investigator, Marco…

January 26, 2016

Cut Me In by Ed McBain

Reviewed by Annabel Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter, although that wasn’t his original name either) was a prolific author, writing over eighty novels. These…

April 28, 2015

The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black

Reviewed by Harriet I thought there wasn’t much more damage that could be done to me that hadn’t already been done. You get hardened…

July 31, 2014

The Day of the Dead by Maurizio de Giovanni

Translated by Antony Shugaar  Reviewed by Falaise On a miserable morning in 1930, a small, undernourished child is found dead at the foot of the…

July 22, 2014

The Cemetery of Swallows by Mallock

Translated by Stephen Rendall Reviewed by Falaise The Cemetery of Swallows is a recent addition to Europa Editions’ excellent World Noir imprint, which, as you…

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