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The Accidental Pallbearer by Frank Lentricchia

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Frank Lentricchia has style and it derives from his Utica, New York upbringing and his coursing Italian blood. The Accidental Pallbearer is no different from his previous fiction except for one thing. Instead of being a high-minded high-art affair connected with film, teaching, love, and traveling, this is a "hardboiled" detective novel of the first rank. The two key operatives here are "hardboiled" and "first rank". I explain myself more clearly and more personally here:

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