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Those Who Walk Away by Patricia Highsmith (1967)

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From the original review in the Daily Independent Journal, San Rafael CA, September 1967).  In several respects, Those Who Walk Away by Patricia Highsmith is extraordinary. The scene is Venice.

The two protagonists are Ray Garrett, an American whose young wife has recently committed suicide, and his father-in-law, Ed Coleman, who blames his son-in-law bitterly for his daughter’s death.

It soon becomes apparent that Coleman’s embitterment has become a madness, and that he is determined to kill Garrett. This novel deals with the ensuing hunt. Read More→

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The Black Angels (1926) by Maud Hart Lovelace

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From the original review in The Oakland Tribune, Nov. 1926:  In the eighties the theatre-loving world was on what might be termed a Pinafore jag. Light opera troupes, specializing in the presentation of the Gilbert and Sullivan musical hit, toured the land by the dozens. Some were good, many were bad, and a few were excellent.

The latter, however, never found their way back into the Middle West or back country sections, but the former did in scattered bands. And it is with this little known phase of early American middle western life that Maud Hart Lovelace deals in her novel The Black Angels. Read More→

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