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'The Legal Limit' by Martin Clark
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJuly 9, 2008 It does Martin Clark's fine new novel, "The Legal Limit," no injustice at all to call it perfect summer reading. This is the sort of book Graham Greene used to call "an entertainment" -- which is to say, sufficient skillful attention has...Tags: Christianity, Baptist, Murder, Geography, Crimes
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Serially thrilling
The serial novel conjures up images of a bygone century, of a time when Charles Dickens made his name by teasing out the life and death of Little Nell in monthly installments. But one need only look to the flurry of posts on Jacket Copy last month...Tags: New York Times, Newspapers, Stephen King, Murder, Charles Dickens
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'Chasing Darkness' by Robert Crais
Special to The TimesJuly 1, 2008 For months now, "Chasing Darkness," the 12th novel by Robert Crais to feature Los Angeles private investigator Elvis Cole, has been generating lots of anticipatory buzz among fans (some of whom have organized themselves into an online...Tags: Washington Post Company, New York Times, Newspapers, Book, Murder
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Tolkien's children fight for 'Lord of the Rings' gold
HOLLYWOOD BRIEFSO "THE LORD OF THE RINGS" made no money. Let me amend that. The film trilogy, which grossed $2.96 billion worldwide at the box office and $3 billion or so more in DVD and ancillary markets, has not made any money for the heirs of J.R.R. Tolkien,...Tags: Art Buchwald, New York Times, Peter Jackson, Liv Tyler, Wages and Pensions
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'I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History' by Walter Mirisch
Special to The TimesMay 29, 2008 Walter Mirisch has long been one of Hollywood's most respected producers. His career has spanned more than six decades, and he has played a major role in the development of many important local institutions as well as the Academy of Motion...Tags: Steve McQueen, Blake Edwards, Dustin Hoffman, Joel McCrea, Billy Wilder
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Liars and cheats
In 1988, Princeton University accepted an orphan with an eye-catching résumé. Seventeen-year-old Alexi Santana hadn't been to school but had picked up his education while working in Utah as a cattle herder, a construction worker and a racehorse exerciser....Tags: Corporate Crime, John Robinson, Crimes, Newspaper and Magazine, Periodicals
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The Nordic Mystery Boom
Americans are often unaware of major cultural trends developing just slightly off the beaten path. Take the Scandinavian Whodunit Boom. A month ago, Karin Fossum's novel, "The Indian Bride," won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best mystery. Fossum, a...Tags: Fiction, Georges Simenon, Christmas, Rex Stout, Walter Matthau
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The beast within
The Wolfman By Nicholas Pekearo Tor, $23.95 If the heart-rending circumstances surrounding the death of 28-year-old Nicholas Pekearo—a New York City auxiliary police officer and aspiring writer shot and killed in the line of duty in 2007 while...Tags: Gaming and Lotteries, Illinois, Murder, Wars and Interventions, Crimes
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Discoveries
The Well and the Mine A Novel Gin Phillips Hawthorne Books: 252 pp., $15.95 paper "After she threw the baby in, nobody believed me for the longest time." So begins this astonishing debut novel, a story told in the five voices of an Alabama family in...Tags: Nebraska, Elizabeth Edwards, Ohio, John Lennon, Alabama
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SCREEN SCENE: Chicagoan Balaban tackles a rich subject -- plus a guide to art house and 2nd run films
Tribune staff reporterShe was called "the richest little girl in the world." No, not Paris Hilton--Doris Duke, heiress of the Duke tobacco and energy fortune. From her birth in 1912 to her death in 1993, Duke amassed and gave away much of her wealth to charity. Also...Tags: Edward G Robinson, Evanston, Bill Murray, Festive Event, Bryan Singer
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