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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3529874, member: 199"] Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End - my mother recommended it to me one rainy day when I had nothing to do and was bugging her - said it was one of her favorites. Loved it so much that for years whenever I found a copy in a used book store I would buy it and give it to a friend as a 'must read'. No one I have ever given it to has gotten past the first half of the first of the four books. Go figure. Most of Dashiell Hammet but particularly my personal favorite The Glass Key. (Love the movies as well which I watch whenever I can as well.) And a follow on with Raymond Chandler - most of his books. Edie by Joan Stein - about Edie Sedgwick and NYC and the Warhol crowd Most of Shakespeare All of Dorothy Sayers mysteries and some of Ngaio Marsh, Agatha, Josophine Tey (The Daughter of Time a favorite), Elizabeth Daly (fiiting for this thread as her detective is a rare book specialist!), Le Carre. [/QUOTE]