An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

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Who better to give us their top five crime thrillers? I’m cheating here a bit, as it’s something of a spy thriller, but for me this book, published in 1970, is the perfect novel that I read as a ...

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