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We'll Always Have Murder: A Humphrey Bogart Mystery (Humphrey Bogart Collection) | 
| Author: Bill Crider
Publisher: I Books
Category: Book
List Price: $6.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2111492
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 074349296X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780743492966
ASIN: 074349296X
Publication Date: August 31, 2004
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 Read it, junior ... you'll like it. May 4, 2009
Charlie Stella (Fords, New Joisey)
We'll Always Have Murder ... if you're a fan of Bogart or Hollywood or just great dialogue, you'll want to read Bill Crider's masterful mystery featuring Terry Scott and the man himself, Bogie. Visit the Hollywood of yesterday and make a quick stop at The Brown Derby as Bogie plays true to his Hammett form as an attempted blackmail leads to one murder after another. This one comes equipped with car chases (the mystery black Packard), gunsels and dames that prefer dames ... but what author Bill Crider does best is provide us with Bogieisms that had me reading the lines out loud (in my best Bogie) ... This is a fun read that is difficult to put down.
And we all should READ amici ... so pick this baby up and have some fun in La-La land.
 No One Messes With Fred C. Dobbs November 10, 2003
S. Berner (Boca Raton, Fl USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Taking a page from Stuart Kaminsky's "Toby Peters" mysteries, author Crider builds a fun tale of murder and mayhem in old (1940's) Hollywood with P.I. Terry Cook being ably assisted in solving a tinseltown murder (or two) by none other than Humphrey Bogart. Atmosphere and ambience are first-rate, and Crider succeeds in the trickiest part of his conceit by actually having Bogart SOUND like Bogart, or at least our impression of him, throughout. As a mystery it's about a "3". Astute readers will pick up on the killer fairly quickly if they apply Roger Ebert's "Economy of Characters" theory. But what sets this apart for film buffs is the sense of going behind the scenes and noting the "real" people Crider deftly hides behind his fictional characters. This is promised as the first in a series featuring the star and the hapless detective, and one looks forward to the next installment. One word of caution though, if Ibooks IS planning on future volumes, they REALLY ought to spring for a proofreader! There are so many gaffes within this modest tome, that one often has to apply one's own detective skills towards making sense of some of the sentences (note: Spellcheck alone just ain't gonna cut it, fellas!)
A welcome debut, though. Let's hear it for Bogie & Cook!
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