read the mammoth book of historial crime fiction edited by mike ashley ranging from the bronze age to the 1920s it promised much and delivered part more novellas ten short stories some overplayed for example the roman investigators or medieval sherlock the most orignal was a tale of butch and sundance on a new york crime spree waiting for their boat to south america but this just left the dock story wise others even a sister fidelm story just potboiled to flagged conclusion
street fight in naples by peter robb a panorama of naples claimed to be a thousand year history bit mainly stuck in the 17th century bit fragmented and dull even in the story of the fisherman demologue Masaniello, who is just one of the charactors
the ascent of media from gilgamesh to google roger parry well structured and good history of media from writing on clay tablets to ebook but on the whole read like a website
city of fortune bt roger crowley (note books i read this week mostly by a roger just concidence) crowley is a venice specialist and this did not disappoint telling of early venice exploiting its connectins to the byzantine trade links , exploiting the decline and fall of the byzantines at the expense of its commerical rivals genoa and pisa in trade and war then venice coming up against an all powerful ottoman empire and the new world trade routes
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