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Les Standiford's Opening Day in Print from
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eBook Digest: April 2001
Opening Day, a novella by Les Standiford based on the history of the Negro Leagues. The e-book will be ...
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Opening Day , Les Standiford's novella about Satchel Paige, former Negro Leagues baseball star (LiveReads), includes a lot more than good reading...
Malamud's "The Natural," W.P. Kinsella's "Shoeless Joe" and the film "Field of Dreams," this novella comes with the kind of magic charm that transcends sport and rises to the level of heroic myth." -- from Salon.com
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"Even at this early stage it's obvious the Deal series is going to be hugely popular. So readers might as well get in on the ground floor and enjoy the ride."
-- Chris Nelson, Calgary Sun, 1997
Deal News!
Poisoned Pen Press is re-releasing the Deal series.
Les' 1997 Novel, Deal on Ice, has been reprinted in trade paperback by Poisoned Pen Press, under the title he originally proposed: "Book Deal."
Les tells the story behind the story in an author's note to his new edition, which also contains an introduction by Mitchell Kaplan, proprietor of Books and Books in Miami, who gave Les the idea for a murder mystery set against the backdrop of the book business.
NOW AT A BOOKSTORE NEAR YOU:
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Cover artwork by photographer and mystery writer Tom Corcoran
Coming in 2003!
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Among mystery buffs, John D. MacDonald may be the poet laureate of South Florida, but now Standiford whose work has been praised by Elmore Leonard and Stephen King, among others bids fair to be MacDonald's heir apparent. (Travis McGee fans will note John Deal's resemblance to MacDonald's "salvage consultant," and Standiford, like MacDonald, excels at depicting violence.)
DeadlyPleasures.Com
March 11, 2001. Les Standiford, Deal With the Dead, reviewed by Ted
Hertel.
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Les Standiford signs DEAL WITH THE DEAD. ...
South Florida detective confronts ghosts of past: from The Tampa Tribune, Apr 17, 2001.
Southern Scribe.Com
“Les Standiford couldn’t write a bad novel if his life depended on it,” critic Peter ...
Standiford’s new hardcover is his sixth in the popular series featuring intrepid Miami building contractor hero John Deal and his eighth novel overall. ... Proof positive that he couldn’t write a bad novel if he tried—Deal with the Dead is Exhibit-A that Standiford just keeps getting better. "
-- Brewster Milton Robertson
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... don't be fooled. Miami author Les Standiford makes terror his business and brings it close to home. After reading Black Mountain, his latest mystery ...
of the party are killed by what seems like accidents. But it soon becomes clear that the elements are not really what the party is battling.
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