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When You’re Too Hard Core for Raymond Chandler

Fast One by Paul Cain

September 22, 2021 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

Bingo square – People This noir classic was created when Paul Cain patched together five stories that he had written for the detective magazine Black Mask.  Published in 1933, it soon became famous as the book that was just too hardboiled to be fashioned into a movie.  And seriously, it is, even by today’s standards.  Daaaaamn son. Paul Cain was by then a slippery character in Hollywood.  That was not his real name, nobody was quite sure where he was from (spoiler, Iowa, actually), and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Crooked politicians, detective, drugs, gambling, los angeles, Noir, Old Hollywood, Paul Cain, Sleeziness everywhere

elderberrywine's CBR13 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Crooked politicians, detective, drugs, gambling, los angeles, Noir, Old Hollywood, Paul Cain, Sleeziness everywhere ·
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A Mother-Daughter Thing

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis

December 1, 2020 by Jake 1 Comment

I found this book on a list of unusual true crime reads. I suppose on some level this can be classified as a “true crime” book. Illegal gambling is a crime and I guess Fannie Davis was technically a criminal if you’re going by the letter of the law. But this is really more than that. It’s a story about a daughter’s relationship with her mother, how it evolved over the years, how her mother embraced her unusual profession and used it to make a […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, Bridgett M. Davis, Davis, detroit, families, gambling, Numbers, The World According to Fannie

Jake's CBR12 Review No:178 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, Bridgett M. Davis, Davis, detroit, families, gambling, Numbers, The World According to Fannie ·
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Casino

The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice by David Hill

November 7, 2020 by Jake 1 Comment

Part of my family is from Arkansas. I never knew Hot Springs to be such a den of vice! This is about as entertaining as true crime can get, especially if you like mob tales as I do. There are three running threads in the story: Dane, Owney, and Hazel. Dane becomes the top man for gambling in the city almost by accident but does all he can to legalize it. His ideas are actually ingenious but he’s consistently working against Arkansas’ theocratic bureaucracy. Owney, […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Arkansas, David Hill, gambling, Hot Springs, Mob, The Vapors, true crime

Jake's CBR12 Review No:170 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Arkansas, David Hill, gambling, Hot Springs, Mob, The Vapors, true crime ·
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What happens at Vega’s….

My Once and Future Duke by Caroline Linden

April 12, 2018 by Mikki Blu 1 Comment

So this is a fairly standard historical romance, the first in a new series by Ms Linden – The Wagers of Sin.  I feel like I’ve read several books lately with a similar premise – young, beautiful woman is left nearly destitute after the death of loved ones, and seeks to make a fortune by gambling.  And in the course of this gambling, she meets handsome, wealthy lord who falls into lust with her and must have her. In this case, we have Sophie Graham, […]

Filed Under: History, Romance Tagged With: #CBR10, Caroline Linden, gambling, historical romance, The Wagers of Sin #1

Mikki Blu's CBR10 Review No:17 · Genres: History, Romance · Tags: #CBR10, Caroline Linden, gambling, historical romance, The Wagers of Sin #1 ·
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Gambling to secure a future, winning a duke

My Once and Future Duke by Caroline Linden

March 17, 2018 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars Sophie Graham is twelve when she is orphaned and left in the care of her arrogant grandfather, the Viscount Makepeace. Her father, his second son, eloped with an opera singer (Sophie’s mother) and was summarily disowned. Sophie spent her childhood travelling through Europe with her parents. When both her parents die from illness, there is no one left for Sophie. Her grandfather sends her to boarding school, where she befriends Miss Eliza Cross, the daughter of an industrialist, and Lady Georgiana Lucas. Sophie’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: #CBR10, Caroline Linden, gambling, historical romance, Malin, My Once and Future Duke, Regency, The Wagers of Sin

Malin's CBR10 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: #CBR10, Caroline Linden, gambling, historical romance, Malin, My Once and Future Duke, Regency, The Wagers of Sin ·
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Revisiting a classic I had seriously forgotten every aspect of – also, Cannonball

Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas

May 26, 2017 by Malin 15 Comments

Sara Fielding and Derek Craven have a hell of a “meet-cute”. While researching her future novel in one of the seedier corners of the East End, Sara comes across Craven being held down and attacked by two thugs. They’ve slashed his face open, and she intends only to fire a warning shot from her pistol (which sh obviously keeps in her reticule for defencive purposes), when she instead ends up killing one of the assailants. She discovers that the man whose life she saved is […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: cbr9, Gamblers of Craven's, gambling, historical romance, lisa kleypas, Malin, re-read, Regency

Malin's CBR9 Review No:52 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: cbr9, Gamblers of Craven's, gambling, historical romance, lisa kleypas, Malin, re-read, Regency ·
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