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A private detective named Lionel Freakshow Essrog, who suffers from Tourette's syndrome, is the hero of Lethem's novel, set in a particularly colorful part of Brooklyn. Essrog must track down the murderer of his old friend, and boss, the big-time gangster Frank Minna. A 1999 New York Times Notable Book.
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These nine stories showcase the talents of that grande dame of suspense, Ruth Rendell. The title story is an offbeat tale about a man who sits at home reading popular novels, making lists of the grammatical and factual errors they contain, and writing excoriating letters to the authors. Other stories include
The Wink,
The Beach Butler,
and
The Astronomical Scarf.
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Jasper Fforde's third Thursday Next novel finds his heroine pregnant and working for Miss Havisham in the department of Jurisfiction. The legal stuff is getting her down, and a temporary assignment at the Well of Lost Plots, subbing for a vacationing character in a truly awful unpublished detective novel, sounds like more fun. But the crime, vice, and general mayhem Thursday discovers top anything she has seen yet. And to make matters just slightly worse, someone seems to want to kill her....
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Kinky leaves the city to retreat his family's Texas ranch, but the local justice of the peace convinces him to help investigate whether the recent deaths of four old ladies might have a sinister connection.
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