Brown Harvest
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What happens when the Boy Detective grows up, moves away, and comes home for a visit?
His hometown's gone from American-as-apple-pie to darkest noir; his once-innocent girlfriend has transformed into something both more and less than she once was; his father has become a bum on the skids—and that's the least of it.
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Both parody and tribute to childhood heroes, Brown Harvestturns and twists the fondest memories of characters familiar to anyone who grew up reading detective stories. Drawing on a tradition of borrowing from popular classics that stretches from Shakespeare on, Russell joyfully creates mayhem from colliding the worlds of hardboiled thrillers, young adult mysteries, and classic noir fiction.
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