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THE BIG CLOCK (CRIME MASTERWORKS S.)
KENNETH FEARING

ORION, 2002

The Big Clock ( Cover has Ray Milland & Actress )

1 review
Kenneth Fearing

Mysterious Bkclub, NY, 1987

Classic Noir
George Stroud works on a true-crime magazine and is having an affair with his boss' mistress. When she is killed, the boss puts George in charge of the magazine's investigation of the crime. George must hide his identity as the last known person to see her alive, without seeming to hold up the investigation. The plot is intricate and satisfying, and moves quickly. I could not put the book ...

The Sound of Murder (Mercury Mystery No. 173)
Kenneth Fearing

Mercury Publication, 1951

Digest version of this classic mystery.

The Big Clock (New York Review Books Classics)

10 reviews
Kenneth Fearing

NYRB Classics, 2006

The Big Clock
This is an excellent novel, which was made into an almost equally excellent movie. Well-plotted, and told in an innovative way, this story is short but intense. Fearing was a splendid writer.

Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't ...

13 reviews
Horace McCoy, Kenneth Fearing, ...

Library of America, 1997

Thank God for the 1930's and 1940's/
First of all, the Library Of America collection provides the reader with some of the most beautiful hardcover editions available today. That said, the selections chosesn for this edition are all first class; for someone just getting into hard-boiled fiction, this is the ideal place to start. If you're like me and have been reading this genre for many years, this is a perfect volume to add to ...

The Big Clock / The Saint Sees It Through / A Knife Is Silent / ...And High Water
Kenneth Fearing / Leslie Charteris / David Kent / Aaron Marc Stein

Unicorn Mystery Book Club, 1947

Complete Poems (Phoenix Poets)

3 reviews
Kenneth Fearing

National Poetry Foundation, 1994

Truth, be known, be kept forever...
Generally, I would say that I don't like poetry, but there are exceptions and I totally love this guy's work. He wasn't pining for love, he was angry and frustrated and working off his aggression through pictures made of words. Oh man, the way he puts words together - his poems just whine to be read aloud. Several eons ago, I discovered Kenneth Fearing's poem "Denouement" while in the throes of ...

Manhunt: Detective Story Monthly (March, 1955, Vol. 3 #3)
John; Hal Ellson; Jack Webb; Henry Kane; Gil Brewer; Jonathan Craig; Erskine Caldwell; Kenneth Fearing; et al McCloud

Flying Eagle Publications, 1955

Clark Gifford's Body (New York Review Books Classics)

1 review
Kenneth Fearing

NYRB Classics, 2006

Novelistic Style 101
As with Fearing's other recently re-issued NYRB novel, 'The Big Clock', this book is comprised of a series of statements by a disparate group of commentators. In this case, the central event is the attempted putsch against a 'Provisional Government' of an anonymous country, presumably in North America and likely the USA of the future. The rebellion was lead by 'Colonel' Clark Gifford representing ...

Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)

2 reviews
Kenneth Fearing

Library of America, 2004

The great noir poet
I don't own this edition but do have fond memories of poring over the old Indiana University Press edition in the library...Fearing was the only poet to complement perfectly the great period of film noir and I always enjoyed his poetry more than his prose...he is the great master of modern alienation in verse, middle class suburban neurotic breakdown, unspoken fear and paranoia, portraying the ...

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