MI-5 and the CID protect London--think anti-Semitism, elitism and pithy verbal snapshots of blackout raids and chicanery in the War Office--during the blitz.
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1931 brings a second breezy outing for L.A. shamus Dexter J. Theroux and Kitty Pangborn, the Gal Friday who was the brains of the outfit in their debut (Death Was the Other Woman, 2008), but who isn't this time.
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Having previously channeled Dickens and Poe, historical novelist Bayard (The Pale Blue Eye, 2006, etc.) throws down the gauntlet to Dumas in another high-energy melodrama.
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