Tag Archives: noir

Fatale – Jean-Patrick Manchette, Afterword by Jean Echenoz, (Translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith)

Posted on June 2, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) ” I don’t tell them I’m a killer. I’m a woman, and they wouldn’t take me seriously. I tell them that I know a killer. Sometimes I let them assume that he is my lover. That … Continue reading →

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In Love – Alfred Hayes (with Introduction by Frederic Raphael)

Posted on February 14, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “The sense of well-being which had flooded through me as I sat at the table and thought of not having now the burden of another’s life on me had almost entirely vanished, and the humiliation of … Continue reading →

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Errata – Michael Allen Zell

Posted on May 11, 2014 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “New Orleans seems to exist as a blank slate for outsiders to grasp and cast their own aspirations, pretenses, and prejudices upon. A few of the outsiders always end up lingering, holding fast, and adding to … Continue reading →

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Busted Valentines and Other Dark Delights – Frank De Blase

Posted on March 16, 2014 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “‘Twas the night before the night before Christmas and Jack Frost was pissed.” That’s the intro to my favorite story, “The Night Before the Night Before Christmas” in Busted Valentines and Other Dark Delights. But what … Continue reading →

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The Big Clock – Kenneth Fearing (Introduction by Nicholas Christopher)

Posted on September 7, 2012 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by J.D. Jung) Everyone adjusts their life to the big clock; sometimes it races forward, sometimes it moves backward. It impersonally reaches for some, and forgets others. George Stroud is one who it reaches for, but fortunately misses. Stroud, a married … Continue reading →

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What You See in the Dark – Manuel Muñoz

Posted on July 2, 2012 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by J.D. Jung) “The woman had to live before she could die…Even if it was the vulgarity of real life—the needs and the mistakes, but also the desire to correct them, the effort toward a forgiveness of herself. A … Continue reading →

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3 to Kill – Jean-Patrick Manchette(Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith)

Posted on May 27, 2012 by J D Jung

Reviewed by JD Jung Acheter ce livre! Shit happens. OK, that’s probably an understatement as it relates to Georges Gerfaut. Then again, maybe not. Gerfaut, a rather ordinary 30-something businessman, discovers how twisted life can get in the late Jean-Patrick … Continue reading →

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Berlin Noir: March Violets; The Pale Criminal; A German Requiem – Philip Kerr

Posted on May 14, 2012 by J D Jung

reviewed by Lillian Thurston Buy It! Did you ever wonder what it was like to live in Berlin during the reign of the Nazis? If you weren’t a Nazi, how did you survive? Berlin Noir, a trilogy by British author … Continue reading →

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