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LEMONS NEVER LIE RICHARD STARK "GROFIELD opened the closet door and the wrestler smiled up at him with his slit throat." Grofield is a summer-stock actor who moonlights as a usual-suspects-type contract criminal. He's a thief, not a psycho-killer, so when an actual murderous nut job tries to hire him, he walks away. He should have run. Instead, Grofield winds up in this first-rate hard-boiled mystery by Richard Stark (also known to aficionados of the genre by his real name, Donald E. Westlake), which reads like Raymond Chandler with a dark literary whisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Guilt-Free Pleasures to Read at the Beach | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

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