Download or read book Dago Red written by Bill Pronzini and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Pronzini invades the Ramble House Sanctuary of Loons with a collection of 22 excursions into the darkest heart of noir. From the perils of familial love in "Dago Red" to the deadly TV sports of "Olaf and the Merchandisers" Pronzini runs you through a wringer of chills and thrills, with a couple of Nameless Detective stories to keep you grounded. But don't expect the suspense to let up, because there are dangers lurking in the twenty stories that lie in between, each more menacing than the last. A Ramble House book

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Download or read book Dago Red written by Bill Pronzini and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Pronzini invades the Ramble House Sanctuary of Loons with a collection of 22 excursions into the darkest heart of noir. From the perils of familial love in "Dago Red" to the deadly TV sports of "Olaf and the Merchandisers" Pronzini runs you through a wringer of chills and thrills, with a couple of Nameless Detective stories to keep you grounded. But don't expect the suspense to let up, because there are dangers lurking in the twenty stories that lie in between, each more menacing than the last. Recently named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America and recipient of a Western Writers of America Spur Award for co-writing "Crucifixion River" with his wife, author Marcia Muller, Bill Pronzini lives in Petaluma CA. He recently released his 33rd Nameless Detective novel, Fever. and a new stand-alone, The Other Side of Silence, will be published in October of 2009.

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Download or read book Boston written by Upton Sinclair and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealthy dowager confronts the brutality of the class system and fights for justice in this dramatic account of the Sacco and Vanzetti case With the publication of The Jungle in 1906, Upton Sinclair became the literary conscience of America. Two decades later, he brought his singular artistry and steadfast commitment to the cause of social equality to bear on the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists accused of armed robbery and murder. Boston, a “documentary novel” published one year after Sacco and Vanzetti were executed, brilliantly combines fact and fiction to expose the toxic atmosphere of paranoia, prejudice, and greed in which the two men were tried. Recently widowed sixty-year-old Cornelia Thornwell abandons her Boston Brahmin family to take a factory job in Plymouth, Massachusetts. She witnesses the crushing poverty and heartless bigotry endured by immigrant laborers, and befriends the charismatic fishmonger Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a committed anarchist and atheist. When Vanzetti and his fellow countryman Nicola Sacco are arrested and charged with murder, Cornelia’s belief in the fairness of the American judicial system is shattered. Joining the public outcry heard from Boston to Buenos Aires, she demands a fair trial—but it is too late. As Sacco knew all too well: “They got us, they will kill us.” This ebook has been authorized by the estate of Upton Sinclair.

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