W. H. Auden once defined light verse as the kind that is written by poets who are democratically in tune with their audience and whose language is straightforwa

Henry Rios is introduced as a troubled San Francisco public defender, burnt out and battling alcoholism. While investigating the murder of an old friend, he tra

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