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A fun mystery about the death of a ham radio operator. Excellently remastered. A bit pricey, but worth it if you like "normal person forced into the role of a detective" stories -- especially on sale or in a bundle!
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An excellent remastering of a fun episode about a newspaper reporter who gets wrapped up in a murder surrounding an angry cat. The price is a bit steep, but worth picking up for mystery fans, particularly if it's on sale or in a bundle!
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An excellent remastering. Dragnet is a gritty true crime audio drama -- or at least as close as they could get in the 1950s. This episode involves the investigation of an arson case. The acting tends to "serious men talking in low serious tones," but it's good and the sound design is excellent. The price is a bit steep -- $3 for a 30-minute episode -- but worth picking up if you're a true crime fan, or if it goes on sale or in a bundle!
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An excellent remastering of an original Sam Spade episode. If you're a fan of the original Sam Spade stories, these are more family-friendly than the original detective fiction -- a funnier, breezier version of a noir detective. Still, Sam Spade/the narrator is fun to listen to, and the music and sound effects are excellent. $3 is a bit much for a 25-minute episode, but worth picking up if you're a fan of hardboiled detectives.
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An excellent remastering of a classic episode from 1947 (over 70 years ago!). The Sherlock Holmes of the 1940s was very different from modern interpretations -- John Stanley has much more of the "cozy mystery" feel of Basil Rathbone rather than Jeremy Brett or Benedict Cumberbatch. It also features a pug dog, which made me happy. However, even with the remastering, $3 seems awfully steep for a half-hour episode. Worth a listen if you're a classic Sherlock Holmes fan, especially if it shows up on sale.
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I'm a little tired of the Judge Death stuff, but I respect how the comic continues to reinvent things rather than telling the same story over and over. Another great collection of Dred strips!
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More excellent Dredd comics! The Complete Case Files are all excellent reads, and it really helps an American like me to get a better sense of how Dredd slowly evolved over time.
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After Dredd's experimental phase in the 90s, here it starts settling down and becoming a really good comic.
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The story turns a little more serious and interconnected here, but there are still some funny bits (including some thinly-veiled swipes at superhero comics). The art jars at one point -- I think a comic produced later was jammed into the ongoing storyline -- but still a good collection.
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Fun comic in the vein of Teenagers From Outer Space (or, more accurately, the reverse). With over 500 pages of comic, it's well worth the price!
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This is an amazing collection of TEN Doc Savage novels. I've only read three, but there were very few typos, and each is very well formatted (in epub, at least - I haven't read the others to check). Some elements haven't aged well, naturally, but otherwise it's a collection of good, pulpy adventure!
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A great space fantasy novel. It start off feeling a lot like Star Wars, but it goes in different and interesting directions.
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A good (if quite short) collection of parodies published around the time of the original Sherlock Holmes stories. Easily read in a couple of hours, and quite entertaining!
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Great pulp fun. At times the action is a little muddled, and there are some typos here and there, but its a short, fun read about a master of disguise fighting against an organization that pushes him to the limit.
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This is my first time reading Strontium Dog, and it was a lot of fun! It has the satirical edge of classic Judge Dredd, but due to the focus on mutant bounty hunters, it can tell different stories of prejudice and crime drama. Plus some great art from classic 2000 AD artists. Definitely worth a read!
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