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An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy

September 27, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Whew this is rough. I got hyped for this book just by reading the blurb. A literary mystery in mid-aughts NYC? Rock on, brother. And then I read interviews by Dwyer Murphy and got even more pumped. His favorite authors are my favorite authors and his views on crime fiction mine. And THEN some favorite writers such as Walter Mosley and Andrea Baartz blurbed it. Another dropped a Chinatown reference to the plot. So…this rocked right? Yes? Sigh. On some level, I’m sure folks will […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: An Honest Living, aughts, Dwyer Murphy, mystery, New York City, Noir, Satire

Jake's CBR14 Review No:172 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: An Honest Living, aughts, Dwyer Murphy, mystery, New York City, Noir, Satire ·
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An Honest Living

An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy

September 26, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The novel begins in New York in the early 2010s when our narrator takes up a case related to an upcoming divorce. This takes him to the world of book collecting. He’s been asked by a woman to find evidence that her husband has or is planning to sell off legal transcripts (a particular item in book collecting). He poses as a collector and receives a list of texts and an offer to sell, the evidence he needs. We learn that he’s a disaffected lawyer […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Dwyer Murphy

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:549 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Dwyer Murphy ·
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