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Legal Thrillers for Literary Snobs

Posted on December 13, 2024December 14, 2024 by Michael Kahn
I was talking with a friend about the unfortunate tendency of readers, critics, and publishers to shoehorn every work of fiction into a specific genre, be it romance or science fiction or mystery or historical fiction–as can be confirmed by a stroll through your local bookstore, where the aisles are labeled by the genre they…
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Mystery #4 for Literary Snobs: Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Michael Kahn
Faulkner flirted with the mystery genre throughout his career — Knight’s Gambit and Intruder in the Dust, for example, along with the screenplay for The Big Sleep,which he wrote. But his finest mystery also happens to be his finest novel.  Absalom  Absalom is, quite simply, a superior detective story and a great work of literature. The novel…
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