Bookish: Colorful Characters (5#) -

Salvo Montalbano wakes up
to find a dead horse outside his home . . .

Crime Scraps reviews Andrea Camilleri's
Track of the Sand in its English edition.

# Miranda Seymour reviews David McKie's
Bright Particular Stars - Glorious British Eccentrics.

# Comic strip detective Dick Tracy's
latest artist, Dick Locher, retires.

# Getting animated: Who are the best
and worst Simpson-ised celebrities?

# A significant new American Literary Review.

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