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Ken Kuhlken

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Ken Kuhlken's stories have appeared in ESQUIRE and numerous other magazines, been honorably mentioned in BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, and earned a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
With Alan Russell, in the novella NO CATS, NO CHOCOLATE, Ken has chronicled the madness of book promotion tours.
His novels are MIDHEAVEN (finalist for the Ernest Hemingway Award for best first fiction book, 1980), and the Hickey family mysteries THE LOUD ADIOS (St. Martin's Press Best First PI Novel, 1989, THE VENUS DEAL, THE ANGEL GANG, THE DO-RE-MI, a finalist for the Shamus Award for best private investigator novel of 2006, and THE VAGABOND VIRGINS. www.kenkuhlken.net
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Average rating: 3.57 · 77 ratings · 13 reviews · 14 distinct works
The Biggest Liar in Los Ang...
2.9 of 5 stars 2.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions
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The Venus Deal
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions
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Writing and the Spirit
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009
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The Loud Adios
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions
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Midheaven
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The Do-Re-Mi
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The Angel Gang
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The Vagabond Virgins
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message 1: by Beth

Beth Hi Ken,
Thanks for befriending this fellow mystery author here as well as in real-life!


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