The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill
On a dark and frosty night in Cambridge, an elderly scholar sits by the fire telling his ex-student the ’strange and somewhat disturbing’ story of a painting that hangs in the room. It depicts a Venetian carnival; in the foreground, a figure seems to be in distress. Apparently [...]
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The Man in the Picture - A Ghost Story by Susan Hill - Review
The Big Splash by Jack D. Ferraiolo - Review
The Big Splash by Jack D. Ferraiolo
Jack D. Ferraiolo is the kind of mystic who speaks only in metaphor. In the foreground, his first novel, “The Big Splash,” is a parody of Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett,a young adult version of a rain-soaked noir in which a self-appointed private detective, Matt Stevens, skulks his junior [...]
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