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Painstaking police and forensic work identifies a prime suspect, "Jake", who apart from having film-star looks is a hedge-fund trader, so obviously someone not to be trusted.
City of fear, by Alafair Burke Maxine 2009
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Painstaking police and forensic work identifies a prime suspect, "Jake", who apart from having film-star looks is a hedge-fund trader, so obviously someone not to be trusted.
Book review Maxine 2009
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The Yggyssey picks up a few years after the world-shaking final battle that concludes Neddiad, and switches POVs to Yggdrasil Birnbaum ( "Iggy" for short), the tomboyish female lead of the Neddiad, daughter of the famed cowboy Captain Buffalo Birnbaum, a retired silent film-star.
Boing Boing 2009
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Painstaking police and forensic work identifies a prime suspect, "Jake", who apart from having film-star looks is a hedge-fund trader, so obviously someone not to be trusted.
City of fear, by Alafair Burke Maxine 2009
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Painstaking police and forensic work identifies a prime suspect, "Jake", who apart from having film-star looks is a hedge-fund trader, so obviously someone not to be trusted.
February 2009 Maxine 2009
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There is no doubt about Lena; she is a good German who worked in a hospital during the war and helped to save Jews—as did John Russell's film-star lover Effi in "Stettin Station" 2010.
In the World of Night and Fog Allan Massie 2011
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Nice: It isn't every day that the Matisse Museum comes up with an exhibit of contemporary American art underscored by the tantalizing lure of film-star glamour.
Art by De Niro, Sr., After Seeing Matisse Lanie Goodman 2010
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Nice: It isn't every day that the Matisse Museum comes up with an exhibit of contemporary American art underscored by the tantalizing lure of film-star glamour.
Art by De Niro, Sr., After Seeing Matisse Lanie Goodman 2010
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Described by author Joseph Persico as a "Navy officer and lawyer whose film-star handsomeness belied a serious character," Mr. Harris was raised in Seattle and said he attended law school because jobs were scarce during the Depression.
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Nice: It isn't every day that the Matisse Museum comes up with an exhibit of contemporary American art underscored by the tantalizing lure of film-star glamour.
Art by De Niro, Sr., After Seeing Matisse Lanie Goodman 2010
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