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  <title><![CDATA[Ambrose Bierce and the Ace of Shoots]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;B&gt;&amp;#147;Oakley Hall is a master craftsman. . . . Intrigue will keep you turning the pages.&amp;#148; &amp;#151;Amy Tan&lt;/B&gt; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt; From Thomas Pynchon to Richard Ford, Amy Tan to Diane Johnson, the list of devotees of the Ambrose Bierce mystery series continues to grow as the larger-than-life hero tracks down California's most malevolent criminal minds. In this rough-and-tumble romp through gritty Old San Francisco, Ambrose Bierce and his faithful associate Tom Redmond are on the trail of a celebrity sniper. Amid seduction, revenge, wing shots, ambuscades, knife throwers, free-love colonies, a friendly opium parlor, and a letter from Queen Victoria, Ambrose Bierce and Tom Redmond must turn up the true killer. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt; &amp;#147;Oakley Hall has found the perfect Holmes of the West in Ambrose Bierce, and an ideal Watson in the guise of Tom Redmond. &lt;I&gt;Ace of Shoots&lt;/I&gt; is beautifully written and devilishly entertaining&amp;#151;as much fun as a Wild West shoot-'em-up extravaganza.&amp;#148; &amp;#151;Mark Childress</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Using Ambrose Bierce as a fictional detective in 1890s San Francisco was a good idea. Unfortunately, the author wasn't quite up to it. In this book, Bierce is only a vague side-character. Instead, we're bored by a bland, no-personality narrator named Tom Redmond, who's supposed to be Bierce's &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13096905">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Meh.  I was kind of ambivalent about this book.  I liked the historical aspect, but couldn't get that into the plot.  And I had absolutely no sense of the characters at all.  In fact, I'm writing this up about a month after I read it, and I don't really remember anything that happened in the book, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32687970">more...</a>]]></body>
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