False Negative
by Joseph Koenig
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Critic Rating
80%
Critic Reviews: 5
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84%
Reader Ratings: 5
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Synopsis
Adam Jordan wrote the best and worst articles of his journalistic career on the same day. The worst was bad enough to get him fired - but the best landed him a new job, penning lurid articles for Real Detective magazine, one of the last of the true-crime pulps. Only the case they've got him working on, involving a beauty pageant contestant found dead on an Atlantic City beach, is one some very powerful men would rather see covered up than covered. And if Adam keeps digging, he may find he's digging his own grave...
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- All Critics: 5
- Positive: 4
- Negative: 1
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The Wall Street Journal | 8 Jun 2012
Mr. Koenig employs classic elements of pulp but brings them together in an unusually discursive and leisurely style.
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BC Books | 29 Jul 2012
Koenig takes his time with his mystery--focusing as much on the working of pulp crime mags and the dynamics of Eisenhower Era race relations as he does his whodunit.
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Grift Magazine | 12 Jul 2012
False Negative contains fine pulp writing in a style that would be right at home in the pages of Real Detective in 1953.
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Chamber Four | 11 Jun 2012
More than once I wondered why I was reading it.
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Geek Life | 15 Jun 2012
If you couldn’t already tell, I have mixed emotions about this book. The highs were high and the lows were unnecessary and easily avoidable.
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