The Big Clock (Paperback)

from encephalical

So close to being perfect, but something about the resolution didn't feel right.

from irkthepurist

A little too clever for it's own good, and slightly disappointing at the end - I was hoping for something a bit more like John Franklin Bardin rather than what I did get - but this really is a corker on the whole. The main idea of the book is frankly brilliant and if nothing else Fearing really d...

from Iambookish

This book set in the NYC publishing world of the 1940's is classic noir fiction. A wonderfully complex book that touches on many themes and keeps you turning the pages faster and faster.

from delphica

As advertised, this was very noir, a genre that I love because of the setting, and I love it even more when it's urban New York as this is ... but also a genre that I find confusing at heart because it's so sparse that I seriously have no clue what is going on half the time. Especially when the c...

from SeriousGrace

The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing started out slow. George Stroud works for a conglomerate of magazines in their Crimeways department. He is a simple family man with a wife and daughter, but his dreams and ambitious are big. When he has an affair with his boss's girlfriend and she winds up bludgeo...