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Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centennial, a deluxe illustrated commemorative collection of his finest crime stories -- tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy.

Time travelers...dark carnivals...living automata...and detectives? Honoring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master's less well-known…

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Ray Bradbury was one of the greatest American short story writers of the 20th Century. He is best known for his science fiction, his modern gothic tales, and his bittersweet evocations of lost youth. But he wrote good crime fiction too. This collection showcases his abilities as a crime fiction writer. It starts off weakly, in my opinion, but quickly gains strength. I was impressed by 'Where Everything Ends', 'Corpse Carnival', 'And So Died Riabouchinska' and 'The Town Where No One Got Off' (almost a perfect little fable). And then we get the brilliant 'Dandelion Wine' stories: 'The Whole Town's…

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