Eddie Muller, Author . HarperCollins/ReganBooks $29.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-039369-4
Shot in stark black and white, dressed in negligees and toting pistols, the dangerous dames of film noir boldly linger in our minds. In this entertaining and often insightful look at noir stars—Marie Windsor, Audrey Totter, Jane Greer, Ann...
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Eddie Muller, Author . Scribner $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1443-8
In his first crime novel, Muller gives an authentic if depressing view of San Francisco's downtrodden neighborhoods in the late '40s, when boxing was the way to fame and fortune. Billy Nichols, sportswriter for Hearst's Inquirer
(aka
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Eddie Muller, Author . Scribner $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1444-5
It's 1948 in San Francisco, and Billy Nichols, boxing columnist for the Inquirer, is once again in trouble up to his eyeglasses in this fast-paced, funny crime novel. Introduced in The Distance
(2002), Billy is a compelling personality, a mild...
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Eddie Muller, Author Overlook Press $65 (272p) ISBN 978-1-58567-073-4
Stanley Kubrick's The Killing touted as being ""In All Its Fury and Violence...Like No Other Picture Since 'SCARFACE' and 'LITTLE CAESAR'!"" Bay Area mystery writer Muller (his novel Shadow Boxer will be reviewed in the Dec. 9 issue of PW) describes
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Eddie Muller and Jessica Schmidt, illus. by Forrest Burdett. Running Press Kids, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7624-8168-2
The hardboiled detective spoof is nothing new to picture books, but “Czar of Noir” Muller and Schmidt, both making children’s book debuts, accomplish something more with this noir-style send-up licensed with Turner Classic Movies: nurturing an...
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