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Originally Posted by rhdad42
A few years ago, I joined the Hard Case Crime Book Club, which reprints paperback crime novels from WWII to 1960, and also has current authors write in that pulp style. They're great, quick reads. Some of the authors so far have been Erle Stanley Gardner, Mickey Spillane, Lawrence Block, Elmore Leonard, and Stephen King. The covers have original art in pulp style by guys like Robert McGinnis and Glen Orbik.
Right now I'm a few months behind, and I'm reading The Murderer Vine by Shepard Rifkin.
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Nothing like a good detective book. I'm starting a Mystery Reading group through the library for the winter in my small town-first book up is Maltese Falcon. I thought we would start with a classic.