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		<title>&#8220;The Secret Adversary&#8221; by Agatha Christie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Secret Adversary&#8221; is one of Tommy and Tuppence mysteries &#8211; and the only one from this series I&#8217;ve so far managed to lay my hands on. It&#8217;s a perfect thriller, and I absolutely love it. I read it for the first time thirteen years ago, and now just had to refresh it in memory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/07/17/the-secret-adversary-by-agatha-christie/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Pygmalion&#8221; by Bernard Shaw</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This book is well known &#8211; I think I can very well call it famous &#8211; and most people know the plot, if not from the book itself then from the film or theatre. I&#8217;ll remind briefly that in the first act we meet a poor flower girl Eliza Doolittle speaking a dreadful dialect of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/06/26/pygmalion-by-bernard-shaw/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Time and Again&#8221; by Jack Finney</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Simon Morley (Si for his friends), a young talented artist, has to sketch soap bars in an advertising agency for a living, which is as boring as it sounds, until one single day changes his life completely. He is invited to participate in a top-secret project of the USA government. Before long he finds out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/05/25/time-and-again-by-jack-finney/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Valley Of Fear&#8221; by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;d like to see the happiest woman in the world, you should have seen me on the day when I emerged from the library carrying under my arm an enormous volume. &#8220;The Complete Sherlock Holmes&#8221; published in the USA in 1988 is one of the greatest treasures the library has, and since the day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/05/15/the-valley-of-fear-by-sir-arthur-conan-doyle/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Santorini&#8221; by Alistair MacLean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This political detective story starts when people aboard the British military frigate Ariadne &#8211; one of NATO&#8217;s most advanced vessels of its time (the book is written in 1986) witness the crash of a mysterious plane they can&#8217;t identify. Engulfed in flames, it sinks in the Aegean, in the vicinity of Thera Island. About the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/05/02/santorini-by-alistair-maclean/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Thin Man&#8221; by Dashiell Hammett</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story starts when Dorothy Wynant, a pretty girl of twenty, asks Nick Charles, a retired private detective, to help her find her father and arrange a meeting with him. She hadn&#8217;t seen her father since her parents&#8217; divorce and misses him, but knows her mother would strongly disapprove of the meeting. Still, the beginning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/04/17/the-thin-man-by-dashiell-hammett/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Big Sleep&#8221; by Raymond Chandler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first novel about Philip Marlowe &#8211; a young and hard-boiled Californian private investigator. As always, he won&#8217;t bend to either the police, the client or the most sinister criminals &#8211; so at one moment he finds himself in a very awkward situation &#8211; but escapes miraculously. And he never compromises his values. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/04/05/the-big-sleep-by-raymond-chandler/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Fugitive Nights&#8221; by Joseph Wambaugh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This book is a typical American bestseller with a nice collection of testimonials printed on the back of the cover &#8211; all rapture and delight. Inside we&#8217;ll find a collection of fine characters &#8211; half of them total weirdos, but still calling for sympathy, others of a more self-confident, perfectionist type. Breda Burrows represents the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/04/04/fugitive-nights-by-joseph-wambaugh/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;A Blood Affair&#8221; by Jan Roberts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A Blood Affair&#8221; is yet another book about the Mafia. No, not the Russian Mafia, but the more classic version &#8211; American with Italian roots. It&#8217;s also about IRA and their deadly clashes with each other, about drug addicts &#8211; and about a young, beautiful, fragile woman caught in between. Not exactly a suitable position [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/03/22/a-blood-affair-by-jan-roberts/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Up at the Villa&#8221; by W. Somerset Maugham</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mary is very fond of Sir Edgar Swift. When she was a girl of nineteen and he a man of forty-three, he seemed an old man, but now when she is thirty and he is fifty-four, the difference doesn&#8217;t look so great. So when he proposes to her, she doesn&#8217;t say no at once. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/03/20/up-at-the-villa-by-w-somerset-maugham/</link>
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