<![CDATA[Black & White & Dead All Over]]>

false <![CDATA[Black & White & Dead All Over]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1249673162m/6684483.jpg 2537979 3 A keenly intelligent, delightfully mordant novel that blends fact and fiction with the same deft hand that was at work in John Darnton’s best-selling Neanderthal. Bad news is brewing in the inner sanctum of the New York Globe, the city’s long-standing newspaper of note, whose back is to the wall. Readership, advertising, and circulation are plummeting—along with the paper’s vaunted standards—and the cost cutters have their knives out. But trouble of a wholly different kind begins one rainy September morning when a powerful editor is found murdered in the newsroom, with the spike that he’d wielded to kill stories hammered into his chest. The problem for Priscilla Bollingsworth, the young, ambitious female NYPD detective assigned to the case—besides the fact that the mayor is breathing down her neck—is that there are too many suspects to choose from. She teams up with Jude Hurley, a clever, rebellious reporter, and together they navigate the ink-infested waters whose denizens include the paper’s resentful old guard, scheming careerists, a bumbling publisher, a steely executive editor, and a rival newspaper tycoon named Lester Moloch. But the waters thicken considerably when more bodies turn up, dead all over. Armed with the firsthand knowledge he has acquired through forty years in journalism, John Darnton conjures up the cynicism and romanticism of the profession and gives us a cunning, pitch-perfect portrait of the declining—if not yet murderous—newspaper industry. Black and White and Dead All Over is a satirical mystery that entertains from first to last. 2545508 29 7 2008 Black and White and Dead All Over total:174|5:10|4:66|3:68|2:19|1:11| 174 567 312 91 2537979 0307267520 9780307267528 170 90 Black and White and Dead All Over 3.26 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2537979.Black_and_White_and_Dead_All_Over 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:59:32 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:59:32 -0800 2009 Reviewers for the nation's major newspapers clearly loved this comic romp through their own stomping grounds. Anyone in the habit of reading the New York Times will have no trouble recognizing a few of the book's characters, and reporters and editors will probably share a great deal of the author's ...

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I liked that the story is set in present-day journalism. It includes the newspaper's Web site and comm...more...]]> 6684483 9780307387424 3 1 Black & White & Dead All Over 3.26 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1249673162m/6684483.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6684483-black-white-dead-all-over 5 0 false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 12:26:11 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 12:36:35 -0700 2009 The first murder victim, an unpopular editor, is found with an editor's spike driven into his chest. Almost everyone who worked for the paper could be considered a suspect.
The second victim, the gossip columnist was having an affair with ...more...]]> 2537979 0307267520 9780307267528 170 90 Black and White and Dead All Over 3.26 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2537979.Black_and_White_and_Dead_All_Over 4 0 false Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 17:50:12 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 14:02:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2537979 0307267520 9780307267528 170 90 Black and White and Dead All Over 3.26 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2537979.Black_and_White_and_Dead_All_Over 3 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 14:51:52 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 14:56:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2537979 0307267520 9780307267528 170 90 Black and White and Dead All Over 3.26 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2537979.Black_and_White_and_Dead_All_Over 3 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 06:17:26 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 06:19:36 -0800 2008
As a roman a clef about the New York Times, definitely amusing. While some of the pseudonyms are obvious (Jimmy Pomegranate? Come on.) it's defini...more...]]> 2537979 0307267520 9780307267528 170 90 Black and White and Dead All Over 3.26 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2537979.Black_and_White_and_Dead_All_Over 2 0 false Thu Jul 02 11:58:29 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 11:53:34 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 11:58:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2537979 0307267520 9780307267528 170 90 Black and White and Dead All Over 3.26 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2537979.Black_and_White_and_Dead_All_Over 5 0 false Sat Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 02:31:51 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 17:44:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2537979 0307267520 9780307267528 170 90 Black and White and Dead All Over 3.26 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2537979.Black_and_White_and_Dead_All_Over 3 0 false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 08:47:10 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 22:45:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2537979 0307267520 9780307267528 170 90 Black and White and Dead All Over 3.26 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2537979.Black_and_White_and_Dead_All_Over 3 0 false Sat Jan 03 20:03:19 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 20:05:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2537979 0307267520 9780307267528 170 90 Black and White and Dead All Over 3.26 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2537979.Black_and_White_and_Dead_All_Over 3 0 false Mon Jan 26 09:05:49 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 09:07:31 -0800 2009 2537979 0307267520 9780307267528 170 90 Black and White and Dead All Over 3.26 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2537979.Black_and_White_and_Dead_All_Over 3 0 false Wed Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 07:11:32 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 19:34:44 -0700 2008
The other fun part of the book was the walk down memory lan...more...]]> 2537979 0307267520 9780307267528 170 90 Black and White and Dead All Over 3.26 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2537979.Black_and_White_and_Dead_All_Over 3 0 false Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 18:39:25 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 16:27:55 -0800 2009 Well the wit became scarcer and there was a lot of repetition of the clues and possibilities. If you knew nothing about the internal life of newspapers you would pick up some interesting words and word pictures. Not a waste of time but it would make me l...more...]]> 2537979 0307267520 9780307267528 170 90 Black and White and Dead All Over 3.26 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2537979.Black_and_White_and_Dead_All_Over 4 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 17:22:12 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 17:24:48 -0800 2008 2537979 0307267520 9780307267528 170 90 Black and White and Dead All Over 3.26 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2537979.Black_and_White_and_Dead_All_Over 4 0 false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 21 12:11:07 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 26 12:44:56 -0700 2009
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