Lisa Lieberman's Blog - Posts Tagged "noir"

Made before the Hays Code, The Mask of Fu Manchu packs quite a fetishistic kick. There's a little something for everyone here: scenes of the evil doctor preparing to torture the handsome fiancé of the blonde heroine, stroking his victim's naked chest with his long fingernails before injecting him with a serum that will turn him into a slave. A kinky sequence where the young man is whipped by two semi-naked black minions of Fu Manchu's daughter (played by Myrna Loy in yellowface). Loy's character is clearly enjoying the spectacle, but her heart still belongs to Daddy.

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The e-book of the first Cara Walden mystery will be released on July 27. I'm doing a promotion on NetGalley RIGHT NOW.

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The second Cara Walden mystery will be out September 12. I'm running a NetGalley promotion for the next two months.

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THE GLASS FOREST, book 3 in my Cara Walden historical noir mystery series, is now available on NetGalley for review.

Here's the description: Saigon, 1957: Banished from the set of The Quiet American, actress Cara Walden stumbles onto a communist insurgency—and discovers her brother’s young Vietnamese lover right in the thick of it. A bittersweet story of love and betrayal set in the early years of American involvement in Southeast Asia, Lisa Lieberman’s tribute to Graham Greene shows us a Vietnam already simmering with discontent.

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