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In this issue we've got Richard Stark's professional thief Parker, looking for someone to rob after a nice gig falls through in Nobody Runs Forever, and Richard Aleas' New-York private eye John Blake, looking for answers when his high-school sweetheart falls through the cracks in the Edgar-nominated Little Girl Lost.

Nobody Runs Forever
Professional thief Parker and some professional associates had just started a friendly game of cards when he noticed that one of them wore a wire. After the man had been quickly and quietly excused, the game broke up and they all went their separate ways. Parker felt secure enough - only one of them had known him personally, and that one was only known to the others by his first name...
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Little Girl Lost
We all have that first big love we'll never get over, when youthful idealism and teenage lust mix to form a potion stronger than any drug. For John Blake, it was Miranda Sugarman. They'd been together in high school, just two kids without a care, and when Miranda decided to go away to college and become an eye doctor, he was happy for her. He sometimes thought of her that way, living a modest middle-class life in some midwestern city, with a husband, a dog, and a couple of kids...
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Current Reviews:

Nobody Runs Forever by Richard Stark
Little Girl List by Richard Aleas
The Alias Man by Bill Pronzini
Retro by Loren D. Estleman
The Mammoth Book Of Private Eye Stories edited by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg
Classic Of The Month: A Country Of Old Men by Joseph Hansen

Previous Reviews:

July 2004
Texas Wind by James Reasoner
The Pistol Poets by Victor Gischler
The Narrows by Michael Connelly
Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos
The Bookman's Promise by John Dunning
Classic Of The Month: Interface by Joe Gores

November 2003
Lost Light by Michael Connelly
The Last Detective by Robert Crais
Spook by Bill Pronzini
Poison Blonde by Loren D. Estleman

March 2003
Bad Boy Brawly Brown by Walter Mosley
Six Easy Pieces by Walter Mosley
Breakout by Richard Stark
The Perpetrators by Gary Phillips
Black River by G. M. Ford
Not Quite Kosher by Stuart M. Kaminsky

December 2002
The Deal Killer by Jack Bludis
Only Child by Andrew Vachss
Shrink Rap by Robert B. Parker
Gun Monkeys by Victor Gischler
Rain Fall by Barry Eisler
Classic Of The Month: The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown

October 2002
Dead Midnight by Marcia Muller
Most Wanted edited by Robert J. Randisi

September 2002
Step To The Graveyard Easy by Bill Pronzini
To Catch A Spy by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Enough Rope by Lawrence Block
Too Many Spies Spoil The Case by Miles Archer

July 2002
City Of Bones by Michael Connelly
Hell To Pay by George P. Pelecanos
Jolie Blon's Bounce by James Lee Burke
Chicago Confidential by Max Allan Collins

May 2002
Gone For Good by Harlan Coben
Widow's Walk by Robert B. Parker
Put A Lid On It by Donald Westlake
Something Borrowed, Something Black by Loren D. Estleman
Olde Master: William P. McGivern

April 2002
Sinister Heights by Loren D. Estleman
A Century Of Noir edited by Max Allan Collins and Mickey Spillane
All White Girls by Michael Bracken
Olde Masters: Robert Leslie Bellem and Richard S. Prather

February 2002
Bleeders by Bill Pronzini
Basket Case by Carl Hiaasen
Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard
The Big Switch by Jack Bludis
Olde Master: Raoul Whitfield

December 2001
The Mammoth Book Of Pulp Action edited by Maxim Jakubowski
Firebreak by Richard Stark
Retribution by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Olde Masters: Dolores Hitchens and Dorothy B. Hughes

November 2001
The Final Country by James Crumley
Hope To Die by Lawrence Block
Captains Outrageous by Joe R. Lansdale
Pain Management by Andrew Vachss
Total Recall by Sara Paretsky
Critical Space by Greg Rucka
Olde Master: Richard Stark

September 2001
Fury by G. M. Ford
The Dutch by Les Roberts
A Few Minutes Past Midnight by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Olde Master: John D. MacDonald

August 2001
Right As Rain by George P. Pelecanos
Cons, Scams, And Grifts by Joe Gores
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
The Devil Went Down To Austin by Rick Riordan
The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
Olde Master: Harry Whittington

July 2001
The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
Candyland by Ed McBain
Bitterroot by James Lee Burke
"P" Is For Peril by Sue Grafton
Pulp Masters edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg



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