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Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler’s (1888-1959) novels about Los Angeles in the ‘40’s are classic examples of hard-boiled detective writing. What distinguishes Chandler from other writers is his literary writing style that has been the envy of the...
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Chester Himes

Chester Himes was born during the Harlem Renaissance, but wasn’t strictly a part of it. Yet, his gritty crime novels succeeded in doing what so many writers of the Renaissance set out to do: portray...
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James Clavell

James Clavell (1924-1994) is a British writer most known for his novels about the Far East. His stories depict Japan, China and Singapore from the 17th Century to WWII. Shogun, Tai-Pan and King Rat are...
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Martin Cruz Smith

Martin Cruz Smith (b. 1942), though American, has written several exciting novels about the Soviet Union as well as about post-Soviet Union Russia. His literary debut was Gorky Park (made into a film in 1983),...
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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’ (1812-1870) popularity remains so great that none of the novels or short stories he wrote over a hundred years ago has ever gone out of print. I can understand why. Although it wouldn’t...