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Wednesday, October 1
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Orion Crime Masterworks:

1. Dashiell Hammett -- The Maltese Falcon (1930)

2. Arthur Conan Doyle -- Sherlock Holmes's Greatest Cases
3. Anthony Price -- Other Paths to Glory (1974)
4. John D. MacDonald -- The Deep Blue Goodbye (1964)

5. Jim Thompson -- The Getaway (1959)
6. James M. Cain -- Double Indemnity (1944)

7. Edgar Allen Poe -- The Murder in the Rue Morgue
8. Ed McBain -- Ice (1983)

9. Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo -- The Laughing Policeman (1970)
10. Joseph Wambaugh -- The Choirboys (1975)

11. Dashiell Hammett -- The Glass Key (1931)
12. John Dickson Carr -- The Hollow Man (1951)
13. Kenneth Fearing -- The Big Clock (1946)
14. Geoffrey Household -- Rogue Male (1939)
15. Stanley Ellin -- The Specialty of the House (1948-78)
16. Tony Hillerman -- Dance Hall of the Dead (1973)
17. Jim Thompson -- The Killer Inside Me (1952)

18. G.K. Chesterton -- The Best of Father Brown
19. Cornell Woolrich -- Nightwebs (1936-58)
20. Ross Thomas -- Briarpatch (1984)
21. Anthony Price -- The Labyrinth Makers
22. Margaret Millar -- Beast in View

23. Ross MacDonald -- Black Money
24. Georges Simenon -- The Blue Room
25. James M. Cain -- Mildred Pierce

26. Joe Gores -- Hammett
27. Dashiell Hammett -- The Dain Curse
28. Jim Thompson -- Pop. 1280
29. Ed McBain -- Sadie When She Died
30. Dashiell Hammett -- Red Harvest
31. Robert Travers -- Anatomy of a Murder
32. Anthony Price -- The Old Vengeful
33. Georges Simenon -- The Stain on the Snow
34. Jim Thompson -- The Grifters
35. Stanley Ellin -- The Eighth Circle
36. Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo -- Roseanna
37. Jim Thompson -- After Dark, My Sweet

• Jim Thompson -- A Hell of a Woman
• Jim Thompson -- A Swell-Looking Babe
• Jim Thompson -- Savage Night
• Jim Thompson -- Nothing More Than Murder
• James McClure -- The Steam Pig
• Joe Gores -- Interface

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Unusual Suspects, end of day, Wednesday, October 1

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Abnormal Characters, end of day, Wednesday, October 1

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J. Hoberman's new book, The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties, is out. He's one of the few movie critics I religiously read.

One of the few book critics I always make a point to read is Michiko Kakutani. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1998.

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The 10-year T-Note yield has fallen all the way back down to 3.937%

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Note prices shot up yesterday, but it's important to recognize that they've been rising strongly since the beginning of September.

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