Benjamin Black
Birth date: December 08, 1945
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Book: The Black-Eyed Blonde Author: Benjamin Black Genre: Hard-Boiled Detective/Gangster/Noir/Police Novel Summary: "It was one of those Tuesday afternoons in summer when you wonder if the earth has stopped revolving. The telephone on my desk had the air of something that knows it's being watc...
Even the Dead was my first "Quirke" novel - which didn't matter one bit - and I have to say that I'm definitely wanting to read more.I've been a bit down on crime recently - with a few notable exceptions I've been findig them all very samey and indeed I have picked up and put down a few - with Even ...
I just finished this book. As I was reading this book, I feel like I have weighted blanket after weighted blanket added to my shoulders until I was hunched over almost in a ball of depression. The book is written well and while I don't mind a book that is deep and dramatic, this was so much more and...
This book was actually not that bad. It had an interesting storyline, and the trademarks of a noir novel. The problem, for me, was only that it was supposed to be a Philip Marlowe novel. Not because I expected something different (I did, but I have no problem changing my standards), but because the ...
Bored, that's what I felt reading this book. It's very short, only about 150 pages, and still, it was too long for the story that was being told. I just couldn't care for the story. I'm not planning on reading more books by this author, and wouldn't recommend them. Something I do think is intere...
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