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A Walk Among the Tombstones (film)
A Walk Among the Tombstones is a 2014 American neo-noir crime drama-thriller film written and directed by Scott Frank, and based on the eponymous 1992 novel of the same name by Lawrence Block.
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (novel)
A Walk Among the Tombstones is a 1992 crime thriller novel by Lawrence Block.
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A. J. Raffles
Arthur J. Raffles is a British fictional character – a cricketer and gentleman thief – created by E. W. Hornung, who, between 1898 and 1909, wrote a series of 26 short stories, two plays, and a novel about him and his fictional chronicler, Harry "Bunny" Manders.
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.
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Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an international mutual aid fellowship whose stated purpose is to enable its members to "stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety." It was founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio.
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Antioch College
Antioch College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
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Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza (born Benedito de Espinosa,; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677, later Benedict de Spinoza) was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin.
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Beacon Press
Beacon Press is an American non-profit book publisher.
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Bernie Rhodenbarr
Bernie Rhodenbarr is the protagonist of the Burglar series of comic mystery novels by Lawrence Block.
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Bouchercon XVIII
Bouchercon is an annual convention of creators and devotees of mystery and detective fiction.
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Bouchercon XXII
Bouchercon is an annual convention of creators and devotees of mystery and detective fiction.
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Bouchercon XXV
Bouchercon is an annual convention of creators and devotees of mystery and detective fiction.
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Bouchercon XXXII
Bouchercon is an annual convention of creators and devotees of mystery and detective fiction.
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Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.
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Burglar (film)
Burglar is a 1987 Canadian-American comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson and distributed by Warner Bros. The film stars Whoopi Goldberg and Bobcat Goldthwait.
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Contingent fee
A contingent fee or contingency fee (in the United States) or conditional fee (in England and Wales) is any fee for services provided where the fee is payable only if there is a favourable result.
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Cornell Woolrich
Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer who wrote using the name Cornell Woolrich, and sometimes the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley.
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Crime fiction
Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.
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Crime Thriller Awards
The Crime Thriller Awards is a British awards ceremony dedicated to crime thriller fiction.
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Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist.
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Dave Van Ronk
David Kenneth Ritz "Dave" Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer.
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Designated hitter
In baseball, the designated hitter rule is the common name for Major League Baseball Rule 5.11, adopted by the American League in 1973.
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Donald E. Westlake
Donald Edwin Westlake (July 12, 1933 – December 31, 2008) was an American writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit.
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E. W. Hornung
Ernest William Hornung (7 June 1866 – 22 March 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London.
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Edgar Award
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City.
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.
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ESPN
ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%).
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Fix-up
A fix-up (or fixup) is a novel created from several short fiction stories that may or may not have been initially related or previously published.
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French colonial empire
The French colonial empire constituted the overseas colonies, protectorates and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward.
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Gentleman thief
A gentleman thief, lady thief, or is a stock character in fiction.
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Gold Medal Books
Gold Medal Books, launched by Fawcett Publications in 1950, was a U.S. book publisher known for introducing paperback originals, a publishing innovation at the time.
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Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
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Gumshoe Awards
The Gumshoe Awards are an American award for popular crime fiction literary works.
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Hal Ashby
Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929 – December 27, 1988) was an American film director and editor associated with the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking.
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Hard Case Crime
Hard Case Crime is an American imprint of hardboiled crime novels founded in 2004 by Charles Ardai (also the founder of the Internet service Juno Online Services) and Max Phillips.
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Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton, is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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Hobby
A hobby is a regular activity that is done for enjoyment, typically during one's leisure time.
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Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899January 14, 1957) was an American screen and stage actor.
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J. D. Salinger
Jerome David "J.
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John Sandford (novelist)
John Sandford, real name John Roswell Camp (born February 23, 1944), is an American novelist and former journalist.
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Johnny Midnight (TV series)
Johnny Midnight is an American crime drama that aired for one season in syndication from January 3, 1960 to September 21, 1960.
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Korean War
The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).
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Liam Neeson
Liam John Neeson, OBE (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland.
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Markham (TV series)
Markham is a CBS drama television series starring Ray Milland, which aired during the 1958-1959 and 1959-1960 seasons following Gunsmoke on Saturday nights (later appearing on Thursday nights at 9:30 P.M. Eastern, after January 1960), under the sponsorship of the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company.
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Matthew Scudder
Matthew (Matt) Scudder is a fictional character, the most famous and enduring creation of American crime writer Lawrence Block.
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McFarland & Company
McFarland & Company, Inc. is an independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general interest adult nonfiction.
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Midwood Books
Midwood Books was an American publishing house active from 1957 to 1968.
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My Blueberry Nights
My Blueberry Nights is a 2007 American romantic drama film directed by Wong Kar-wai, his first feature in English.
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Mystery fiction
Mystery fiction is a genre of fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved.
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Mystery Writers of America
Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is an organization of mystery and crime writers, based in New York City.
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Nero Award
The Nero Award is a literary award for excellence in the mystery genre presented by The Wolfe Pack, a society founded in 1978 to explore and celebrate the Nero Wolfe stories of Rex Stout.
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Nero Wolfe
Nero Wolfe is a fictional character, a brilliant, oversized, eccentric armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York Daily News
The New York Daily News, officially titled Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City.
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Norah Jones
Norah Jones (born Geetali Norah Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist.
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Novelist
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.
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Otto Penzler
Otto Penzler (born July 8, 1942) is an editor of mystery fiction in the United States, and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, where he lives.
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Piet Mondrian
Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (later; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
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Playboy
Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine.
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Private investigator
A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent, is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services.
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Ragdale
Ragdale is the summer retreat of Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw (1869–1926), located in Lake Forest, Illinois.
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Random Walk
Random Walk is a 1988 novel by Lawrence Block.
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Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter.
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Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
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Scott Frank
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September 11 attacks
The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
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Short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.
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Stamp collecting
Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects.
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Sue Grafton
Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels.
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Ted Williams
Theodore Williams (born Theodore Samuel Williams; August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager.
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson.
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The Maltese Falcon (novel)
The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the September 1929 issue.
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The New York Sun
The New York Sun was an American daily newspaper published in Manhattan from 2002 to 2008.
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Tilt (TV series)
Tilt is an American drama television series set against the backdrop of the (fictional) World Championship of Poker tournament in Las Vegas, and with the tagline "You're playing poker.
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Universal-Tandem Publishing
Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd was a United Kingdom paperback publishing company established in the early 1960s as Tandem Books.
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Upper East Side
The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park/Fifth Avenue, 59th Street, the East River, and 96th Street.
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When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes is a Matthew Scudder novel, written by Lawrence Block.
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White Plains, New York
White Plains is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States.
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Whoopi Goldberg
Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg, is an American actress, comedian, author, and television host.
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Wong Kar-wai
Wong Kar-wai, BBS (born 17 July 1958) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized work, including As Tears Go By (1988), Days of Being Wild (1990), Ashes of Time (1994), Chungking Express (1994), Fallen Angels (1995), Happy Together (1997), 2046 (2004) and The Grandmaster (2013).
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Writer's Digest
Writer's Digest is an American magazine aimed at beginning and established writers.
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Yellow Springs, Ohio
Yellow Springs is a village in Greene County, Ohio, United States.
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8 Million Ways to Die
8 Million Ways to Die is a 1986 American crime film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, and, in a leading role for the first time, Andy Garcia.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Block
