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76Gasoline Alley, a classic comic strip...
I grew up on Gasoline Alley. Turning to the newspaper comic page was a daily occurrence. Many of us still do. Gasoline Alley has been in continuous distribution since the 1920's. What is truly unusual is that...
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83Discover Andrea Camilleri, and enter mysterious Sicily
Take an idiosyncratic police Inspector, surround him with quirky good guys and bad guys, place them in a funny yet sad Sicily, add Camilleri's way with words and out come an engaging Montalbano mystery. That...
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58The Mystery at Bouchercon
Where do murderers, victims, thieves, cops, suspects, and private detectives meet, eat and party together? Once a year they all get together at Bouchercon. Bouchercon is the biggest and oldest mystery book...
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77Discover Donna Leon, the mystery writer who takes us to Venice
The Commissario Brunetti series is sometimes a police procedural, sometimes a whodunit, sometimes a comic opera, and occasionally plays like "Father does not know best". Brunetti has married into a privileged...
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64Discover John Dunning, the mystery writer / bookscout
For me John Dunning is a trifecta interest hit - mystery author, old time radio authority, and to make it really sweet he writes mysteries about book collecting and old time radio! A bookscout is an...
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62Discover Jon A Jackson, the mystery writer and his Fang
Fang Mulheisen is a good cop who had an even better teacher, a cop known as Grootka. Fang runs up against an out of town pro, a hit man named Joe Service, who is sometimes a little better, and stays a step...
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79Discover Laurence Shames, the mystery writer with the smiling simile
You take a New Jersey crime writer. You move him to Key West. Add too much time, too much sun and you might get a Laurence Shames. There are actually several Laurence Shames. There is the ghostwriter. There is...
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63Discover Harold Adams, the mystery writer who stirred the dust
Carl Wilcox would be the first to tell you he was a bum. An ex-con who was homeless, a drifter, a drinker and eventually called the murder man, might earn the bum label. Harold Adams created Carl Wilcox and...
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85OTR - the secret of time travel revealed...
This time travel technique requires little or no money or training and works in some very interesting time periods. You need only a few things to make it work - a little quality time for yourself, a few...
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71Poker Night
We have a weekly game that we play in the card room at a nearby community center. At least once a month we have a Hold'em tournament. The other Wednesday's we play our form of dealer's choice. Then there are...
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