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Name: The Devil's Wind
Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Author: Richard Rayner
ISBN: 9780066212920

The Devil's Wind

by Richard Rayner

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First Published:
Feb 1, 2005, 338 pages

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Jan 2006, 352 pages

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- Literary Fiction
- Mystery
- USA
- South, USA
- Ariz. Nev. N.M. Utah
- 1940s & '50s
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Neo-noir novel set in 1950s Las Vegas

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