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==Crime (historical)==
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|author=Edney Silvestre
|title=If I Close My Eyes Now
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=
12th April 1961, the radio news is full of Yuri Gagarin's first earth orbit and two boys who'd had ambitions to be Tarzan, to be engineers, or medical scientists curing all diseases, suddenly had a new possibility: maybe they could be astronauts. 'Brasilia had been inaugurated less than a year earlier, but whichever of us got to be president was going to transfer the capital back to Rio. We were twelve. It was a different country. A different world.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521322</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sax Rohmer
|summary=Dr Petrie is surprised, but pleased, to see his old friend Nayland Smith has returned to England. But this is no mere pleasure visit – the former Scotland Yard man is on the trail of Fu Manchu, a Chinese doctor with ''the brains of any three men of genius''. Petrie is immediately plunged into a headlong race against time to stop the mysterious villain from fulfilling his evil plans and leading the East to world domination!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686038</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Maureen Jennings
|title=Except the Dying: Murdoch Mysteries
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Victorian detective novels set in Britain are fairly common, and some of the most well-known and popular crime series fall into this category. The Murdoch stories, however, come from a different angle, being placed (for the most part) in Canada, with its snowy wastes, its logging camps and pioneering spirit. Loyalty to the Queen is as ardent here as back home in 'the old country', but there is a rawness and a sense of space to these novels which is due in large part to their setting.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689878</amazonuk>
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