Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel by Walter Mosley 280pp, Bloomsbury, %26pound;10.99Walter Mosley has cemented his reputation with uncompromising crime novels, as well as being a leading polemicist on race and politics. An interest in comic strips predisposed him to genre writing, and he has also written several ambitious science fiction novels. So [...]
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The term ‘literary mystery‘ is much misused. Sometimes, a literary mystery is simply literate; at other times, there isn’t much mystery. Rebecca Stott’s debut novel, Ghostwalk (Weidenfeld %26 Nicolson %26#163;12.99, pp304) , however, is not only a real literary mystery, but it is also something of a novel of ideas, combining interesting thoughts about Isaac [...]
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