a. k. a. Mandi Wine vs The tick of the clock: Which Should You Read?

a. k. a. Mandi Wine Vin Smith · 2004 292 pages · ≈ 5 h 24 m · Moderate

Life seemed anything but simple to aerobics instructor/private investigator Amanda Seraphina Strowski. With an errant husband who preferred to live life on the cusp of drugged-out insanity, to a low-level malaise that…

The tick of the clock Herbert Asbury · 1928 206 pages · ≈ 3 h 49 m · Challenging

The is a police procedural mystery. It is the rare work of pure fiction written by Herbert Asbury, a early 20th century newsman. The work evokes late 1920s Manhattan, and other environs like Chinatown. If you like old…