Benjamin Appel

• 1977
• / General Fiction
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A holy man in an unholy bindWilliam Kaspar was not your everday sinner. Quite the reverse.William had renounced the pleasures of the flesh. He had quelled his ambitions and appetites. He had donned the robes of a Buddhist monk to search for Nirvana i...

• Jan-2012
• / Mystery
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Benjamin Appel is of that rare species, a native New Yorker. Born in 1907, he was raised in the tough, Hell’s-kitchen district of the West 50’s. Like any other kid in a tough city neighborhood, he had to fight for his self-respect as a human bein...

• Jan-2012
• / Mystery
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The Dark Stain is a novel of tremendous force and vitality. It is a story of lust and hatred and passion . . . nakedly portrayed and in words the meaning of which can escape no one. The locale is Harlem, but what happens in its exciting pages has alr...

• Jan-2012
• / Mystery
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It’s coming . . . the pleasure state!In this biting and satiric novel, a major American writer looks forward to the day - surely not far away - when machines have taken over all productive work, the government consists of a battery of Thinking Mach...

• Aug-2012
• / Suspense
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• Aug-2012
• / Suspense
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Joey Kasow is a skinny Jewish kid growing up in the 1920s in Hell’s Kitchen. Tormented by the Irish thugs in the neighborhood, he eventually gains their begrudging respect and is allowed to join their gang, the Badgers. Joey grows up tough. He know...

• Mar-2018
• / General Fiction
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SWEET MONEY GIRLHortense is a cynic. Love is great and all that, but it's money that makes the world go round. Maxie is in love with Hortense. She won't give him the time of day, but he knows if he can just put together a big real estate deal, she'll...