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The Transatlantic Conspiracy
The Transatlantic Conspiracy
G.D. Falksen | 2017 | Mystery, Young Adult (YA)
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7.0 (1 Ratings)
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Well-paced, good dialogue, some fluttery heartbeats but no trifling romance (0 more)
It's a Falksen book, so you know someone's going to die and it might be someone you like. (0 more)
Exciting, fast-paced, no fluff
Classic conflicts of child/parent, friend/(boy)friend, working/privileged classes, come to a head with a brutal murder, pre-WWI industrial espionage, and a race to survive the crossing.

The publisher classes it as YA, but it is suitable for a well-read late middle grader as the murder is neither gory nor superfluous to the plot. The language is clear and direct, the dialogue natural, and the settings imaginative.
  
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Female Trouble (1974)
Female Trouble (1974)
1974 | Comedy, Crime
8.0 (4 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"My personal theory is that the Hays Code didn’t just forbid certain behaviors and images, it also subtly suggested the way that they might one day be allowable. Eventually filmmakers and studios figured out it wasn’t so much that you absolutely couldn’t show homosexuality, drug use, prostitution, child abuse, and mass murder. They just couldn’t seem fun. Or even funny. John Waters joyfully violates this deeper unspoken code. That’s why his films, especially Female Trouble, burn with the raw power of a Public Enemy or Baby Face."

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