"A good private-eye novel . . . is not really about violence; it's about the fallibility of people, about the grotesqueries of modern life, and not least it is about one man, the detective, who define...
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Joe Thomas' fishing trip on Lake Michigan was pretty typical. He made a catch, had a few laughs and shared old stories with his dad and a close friend.Oh, he also became a multimillionaire after be...
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Jeremy Bonderman and the Detroit Tigers seem to thrive on adversity. Bonderman stayed unbeaten despite another shaky first inning and the Tigers defeated the Cleveland Indians 9-2 to gain a four-ga...
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When the world first met Easy Rawlins, he was 28. It was post-World War II Los Angeles — a city full of opportunity and without a long history — not a bad place to be for a smart, confi...
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