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- noun Attributive form of
private eye
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Kat Richardson is the national bestselling author of the Greywalker series, which features gritty private-eye suspense with a supernatural twist.
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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On Friday 3 April, the Friday Play (BBC Radio 4, 9 p.m.) is an adaptation of Australian author Dorothy Porter's The Monkey's Mask, a "lesbian feminist private-eye novel, written in verse" andset in Sydney.
Broadcast news Maxine 2009
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Leonid McGill, the New York City private-eye narrator of Walter Mosley's absorbing "All I Did Was Shoot My Man" Riverhead, 326 pages, $26.95 , is 55 years old, 5 feet 5½ inches tall, and as physically and mentally capable as any of Mr. Mosley's other African-American protagonists.
A Couple of Complicated Men Tom Nolan 2012
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Kat Richardson is the national bestselling author of the Greywalker series, which features gritty private-eye suspense with a supernatural twist.
Bestselling author Kat Richardson tells all to Sci Fi Bookshelf 2010
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The private-eye novel, for instance, the hardiest of American detective-story forms, had another fine season, thanks to exciting books by both veterans and newer writers.
And Then There Were Ten Tom Nolan 2011
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BEST CABLE SHOW YOU MAY NOT BE WATCHING: FX's funky, funny and twisted Terriers, with its best episode to date this week, once again reminding us this isn't your typical private-eye show.
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Which got a good laugh, then I loomed -- he was sitting, so short as I am, I managed a bit of looming, and said, "I hear he's got a series of books set in Chicago about a supernatural private-eye, gosh, where have I heard THAT before?"
ConDFW -- Wow, what a weekend! p_n_elrod 2009
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A collection of Marcia Muller's best short fiction from the past twenty years, including hardboiled private-eye, horror, western, and psychological suspense stories.
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On Friday 3 April, the Friday Play (BBC Radio 4, 9 p.m.) is an adaptation of Australian author Dorothy Porter's The Monkey's Mask, a "lesbian feminist private-eye novel, written in verse" andset in Sydney.
March 2009 Maxine 2009
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Don Winslow's "The Gentlemen's Hour" Simon & Schuster, 338 pages, $25 ingeniously redesigns the Southern California private-eye tale.
The Spy Tale as Rugged Romance Tom Nolan 2011
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