Paul Buhle, Author, David Wagner, Author, Dave Wagner, Joint Author . New Press $29.95 (460p) ISBN 978-1-56584-718-7
Hollywood and politics have always had a complicated relationship that changes decade by decade (seen as too liberal last year, Tinseltown is now being courted by Beltway bigwigs to produce patriotic entertainment), and this groundbreaking account...
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Paul Buhle, Author, David Wagner, Author, Dave Wagner, Author . Palgrave $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4039-6144-0
This encyclopedic, riveting study of the Hollywood blacklist's impact follows the careers of targeted individuals to explore the blacklist's effects on the arts in America and Europe in the last half-century. As Buhle and Wagner (coauthors...
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David P. Wagner. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0192-9
Wagner’s appealing debut introduces Rick Montoya, who’s moved from Santa Fe, N.Mex., to Rome, where he’s just launched a translation business. When Beppo Rinaldi, an old friend working for the Ministry of Culture, asks Rick to pose as a...
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David P. Wagner. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (236p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0272-8
When Cameron Taylor, an American banker, disappears from Campiglio, a popular Italian ski resort, in Wagner’s serviceable second Rick Montoya mystery (after 2013’s Cold Tuscan Stone), Rick interrupts his vacation to assist Insp. Luca Albani search...
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David P. Wagner. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (182p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0436-4
Wagner’s adequate third mystery featuring translator Rick Montoya (after 2014’s Death in the Dolomites) finds Rick just finishing up a job as an interpreter at a conference in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, devoted to native artist Jacopo da Bassano....
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David P. Wagner. Poisoned Pen, $15.99 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1433-2
Wagner’s enjoyable seventh Rick Montoya mystery (after 2019’s Roman Count Down) takes Rick, an American translator who lives in Rome, and his friend Betta Innocenti, an art fraud investigator with the Ministry of Culture, to Sansepolcro, where Betta
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David Wagner. Poisoned Pen, $16.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-728271-01-9
Wagner again puts his years as an Italian diplomat to good use in his excellent eighth whodunit (following 2020’s To Die in Tuscany) featuring translator-turned-sleuth Rick Montoya. Montoya, a New Mexico native living in Rome, is hired by the...
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