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getting old in mke

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9. _Shooting Star_ by Robert Bloch

Reply to DUgosh (Original post)

Tue Jul 9, 2013, 08:51 AM

Jul 2013

50s pulp detective yarn with possibly the cheesiest cover ever! One eyed detective/literary agent investigates a murder of a film star to clear the name of the star from whiffs of weed smoking. Kind of reefer madness noir.

Listening: _A Dance of Dragons_ by George RR Martin. Most recent of the Song of Ice and Fire books. Running parallel to the events in _A Feast for Crows_ with different viewpoint characters.

2013: 66 and counting.

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