Blogs in January 1970

The Weight of Water 1st January 1970

On Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, more than a century ago, two Norwegian immigrant women were brutally murdered. A third woman survived by hiding in a cave until dawn. In 1995, Jean, a photographer, is sent...

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New Jersey Noir 1st January 1970

Under the editorship of Joyce Carol Oates, New Jersey may be the sixth smallest US state, but it packs in the most murderous American city and is considered to be, on a square by square mile basis, the most...

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The Broken Hearts Club 1st January 1970

They meet every week in the dingy back room of a bar in New York City. An informal group of men with one thing in common: They all suffer the sting of a broken heart. But soon the anger...

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The Age of Innocence 1st January 1970

Wharton’s story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer’s impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of...

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The Pale Blue Eye 1st January 1970

West Point on the Hudson. A retired New York policeman is called to West Point Military Academy in 1831 to solve a gruesome murder and he seeks the help of cadet, Edgar Allan Poe, to help solve the case.

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