Kingly Books is a site dedicated to books, film and the graphic arts. A closer look at its archive - and the wealth of material for perusal - will inform and engage both devotees and the casual observer alike. Their fiction imprint, Kingly Reprieve, is to be applauded for re-publishing two classic fiction titles from the early 1930's/40's. Fans of Hard boiled detective fiction will love Sam Fuller's cynical take on the tabloid newspaper industry of his day. It's a thrilling read - reminiscent of Nathanael West's similarly barbed and excoriating 'Miss Lonelyhearts,' its characters, both individually and collectively, exemplify the amorality and, indeed, brutality employed with impunity by those determined to get just one more story...
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