Author - Donald Dewey
Donald Dewey has written some 40 books of fiction and nonfiction, as well as contributed scores of stories to magazines and other periodicals. He has also had some 30 plays staged in Europe and the United States. Donald's awards include those named after Nelson Algren and the Actors Studio. Dewey is a widower with one son and lives in Jamaica, New York. At one point he lived in Europe for 14 years, writing screenplays and working for the Italian news agency ANSA. Dewey was editor of the ASME-award winning magazine Attenzione and was editorial director of the East-West Network, overseeing a dozen in-flight magazines and the PBS organ Dial. He has also been a theater critic for WNYC in New York and spends far too much time for his health watching the Mets.
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Donald Dewey
Reasonable DoubtsAn ostensibly minor burglary trial proves decis...An ostensibly minor burglary trial proves decisive—and fatal. What happens when a defendant inexplicably rejects an easy plea bargain? Public defender Elena Alvarez views this trial as a personal... -
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Ars Breve Vita LongaArs Breve Vita Longa follows the author's decad...Ars Breve Vita Longa follows the author's decades-long odyssey through orchestras in the United States and Europe to describe the indelible characters he encountered on and off the screen and that,... -
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NulloA reporter for a New York daily, Danny receives...A reporter for a New York daily, Danny receives a deus ex machina for his frazzled life when a bureaucratic snafu sends the wrong coffin from Italy. Soon, he finds himself assigned to Rome to escor... -
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Franchisement: The Alan Gibb StoryHow to Make It Yours Humankind has spent cen...How to Make It Yours Humankind has spent centuries searching for ways to resolve its existential malaise and sense of futility. We have rushed to one organized corpus of thought after another—fr... -
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Red HerringsFor years Charley Sylvester has buried himself ...For years Charley Sylvester has buried himself as the Obituaries Editor of a major New York daily. When he decides to take a vacation in one of his old hunting grounds as a correspondent in Italy, ... -
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Mosquitoes and Tortoises: Flights and Crawls on the Fringes of the Mass MediaFlights and Crawls on the Fringes of the Mass M...Flights and Crawls on the Fringes of the Mass Media Anybody can star in a motion picture, write a Tony-Award-winning play, gain fame as a great jazz pianist, promote a Sudanese rock singer, supply ... -
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All the Aliens in the Neighborhood and Other StoriesAll the Aliens in the Neighborhood is a collect...All the Aliens in the Neighborhood is a collection of stories centering around men and women in a middle-class Brooklyn neighborhood who take one extra look at themselves and their neighbors and ar... -
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The Man Who Hated HistoryThe Man Who Hated History is a suspense novel t...The Man Who Hated History is a suspense novel that borrows from both whodunnit and psychological mystery genres to fashion a political whowuzitdunto. French police inspector Robert Frenaud, as meti... -
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Wake Up and Smell the BeesPaul Finley Mysteries Book Six Private investi...Paul Finley Mysteries Book Six Private investigator Paul Finley receives a packet of old police reports from a former colleague. Most of the reports describe cases that have been squashed or sidet... -
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Who's Killing the Brooklyn Dodgers?Paul Finley Mysteries Book Four A one-time sc...Paul Finley Mysteries Book Four A one-time scrub for the Brooklyn Dodgers is shot to death in the Citi Field press box during a visit to New York City. Soon afterward, a couple of similar shootin... -
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The Bolivian SailorPaul Finley Mysteries Book Two A newly arrived...Paul Finley Mysteries Book Two A newly arrived Bolivian seaman is found murdered in a Manhattan roach hotel. An address book on the body lists three American contacts, one of whom is private inves... -
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Green TrianglesPaul Finley Mysteries Book Three Private inves...Paul Finley Mysteries Book Three Private investigator Paul Finley is hired by an academic for the overtly simple task of returning films shot by an associate of his client in Paris more than 30 ye...
