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Meyer Landsman is the most decorated shammes in the District of Sitka, the man who solved the murder of the beautiful Froma Lefkowitz by her furrier husband, and caught Podolsky the Hospital Killer.
Excerpt: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon 2007
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The Rowing Lesson by Anne Landsman is one of those bench-mark books, a dazzlingly elegiac read and the current trend for half-of-something on the cover lives on, this time half a boat rather than half a person.
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That one is called the Blackpool, a word that figures in Landsman's nightmares.
Excerpt: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon 2007
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Landsman is our main character, a policeman who’s been in the service for many years but has little to show for it, apart from a trashed hotel room, a failed marriage, a dead sister, and his own depression over the state of his life.
“The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” by Michael Chabon (Harpercollins, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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The New York Times called Landsman "one of the most appealing detective heroes to come along since Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe," while the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette felt that the work "came nowhere close to making the cut of a Raymond Chandler novel."
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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The name obtains either because its water power was reserved for the "Landsman" or landlord, or because one Caspar Landsman, whose name appears in the early records may have lived along its banks.
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Investors should be wary if they read a broker was found "jointly and severally liable," says Laurence Landsman , a securities lawyer for Block & Landsman in Chicago.
Digging Up Dirt. And Deciphering It. Suzanne Barlyn 2011
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In the best tradition of the detective novel, Meyer Landsman sets out to solve what will likely be his last case as a police officer.
Selections 2010
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In the best tradition of the detective novel, Meyer Landsman sets out to solve what will likely be his last case as a police officer.
Reviews 2010
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The Trisomy 21 Program social worker also arranged for Sean's family to work with parent advocate, Ruth Landsman.
Sean 2010
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