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What Crumley represents to me is a seriousness of purpose and an ability rare among the major late 20th century private-eye writers to follow Raymond Chandler's lead without unintentionally parodying him. The tendency of the great P.I. writers who preceded Crumley had been to write about the same couple of big cities. Crumley wrote of the Southwest and inadvertently opened the door to a regionalism that has since exploded in mystery fiction, from Robert B. Parker's Boston to Sara Paretsky's Chicago...
...never knew him to lie; I never knew him to dissemble,” she added about her late husband, who first courted her in 1956 by inviting her to the Casablanca on Brattle Street for a beer. “He was a joy to live with...
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...south Lebanon alongside UNIFIL peacekeepers. The heightened security measures occurred after eight Katyusha rockets were discovered by a farmer on Thursday in a valley two miles north of the border with Israel. The rockets, a mix of 120mm and 107mm calibers, were fitted with timers and set for launching late on Thursday night. Lebanese security sources suspect the presence of the rockets was intended as a "message" to Israel rather than an actual attack. They note that the rockets were old and were propped against items of furniture, rather than fitted inside tubed launchers, which would have rendered them highly...
...late Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, made Qureshi the Punjab PPP President in November...