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A 1001 Midnights Review: FRANK GRUBER – Brass Knuckles.

A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Bill Pronzini FRANK GRUBER – Brass Knuckles. Frank Gruber's first novel, The French Key (1940), so moved critic William Lyon Phelps that he rhapsodized: "[It] is the best of 8,000 murder stories I have read." One wonders (a) what sort of godawful mysteries Phelps had been […]

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A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Bill Pronzini FRANK GRUBER – Brass Knuckles.

Frank Gruber's first novel, The French Key (1940), so moved critic William Lyon Phelps that he rhapsodized: "[It] is the best of 8,000 murder stories I have read." One wonders (a) what sort of godawful...

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A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Bill Pronzini FRANK GRUBER – Brass Knuckles. Frank Gruber's first novel, The French Key (1940), so moved critic William Lyon Phelps that he rhapsodized: "[It] is the best of 8,000 murder stories I have read." One wonders (a) what sort of godawful mysteries Phelps had been […]

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A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Bill Pronzini FRANK GRUBER – Brass Knuckles. Frank Gruber's first novel, The French Key (1940), so moved critic William Lyon Phelps that he rhapsodized: "[It] is the best of 8,000 murder stories I have read." One wonders (a) what sort of godawful mysteries Phelps had been […]

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