Book Review
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The Winds of War (1971), Herman Wouk
Rating: 7/10 Accuracy: Extensive, with real figures and events rendered carefully and supplemented by a fictional…
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The Erl-King (1970), Michel Tournier
Rating: 8/10 · Translated from French (original title Le Roi des Aulnes) Accuracy: Precise on East…
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The Crystal Cave (1970), Mary Stewart
Rating: 8/10 Accuracy: Plausible post-Roman Britain, built from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s legends and what little archaeology…
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Southern Seas (1979), Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Rating: 7/10 · Translated from Spanish (original title Los mares del Sur) Plot: A businessman who…
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The Last Good Kiss (1978), James Crumley
Rating: 8/10 Plot: A private eye hired to bring home a drunken novelist ends up searching…
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An Easy Thing (1977), Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Rating: 6/10 · Translated from Spanish Plot: A private detective in Mexico City juggles three cases,…
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A Judgement in Stone (1977), Ruth Rendell
Rating: 9/10 Plot: A cultured country family hires a silent, efficient housekeeper, never guessing the secret…
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Promised Land (1976), Robert B. Parker
Rating: 7/10 Plot: A developer hires Spenser to find his runaway wife, who turns out to…
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Outsider in Amsterdam (1975), Janwillem van de Wetering
Rating: 7/10 Plot: The founder of an unusual spiritual society is found hanged in a canal…
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Last Bus to Woodstock (1975), Colin Dexter
Rating: 6/10 Plot: Two young women hitchhike toward Woodstock on a rainy night; one is found…
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Curtain (1975), Agatha Christie
Rating: 7/10 Plot: Poirot, old and crippled, summons Hastings back to Styles, where they first met,…
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The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1974), Heinrich Böll
Rating: 8/10 · Translated from German Plot: A young housekeeper spends a night with a man…
