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Drink Like a Hard-Boiled, Noir Shamus – 11 Cocktails to Serve Your Inner Detective

Noir Factory

I don’t want to shock anyone, but there is drinking in this establishment. For noir fiction, booze is as much a staple to the gumshoe’s identity as cigarettes, femme fatales, or cynicism. Drinking doesn’t necessarily DEFINE the detective’s identity, but a tee totaling gum-shoe is a rarity indeed in the dark worlds of hard-boiled, noir [...]

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Kill Me, Deadly – YOUR Chance to Play Angel to a Noir-Style Comedy!

Kill Me Deadly

  “Why fall in love with a broad you can trust? That’s like reading a book you already know the ending to.” - Mona Livingston -Kill Me, Deadly On Criminal Minds, the dark CBS drama that my wife turned me onto, Kirsten Vangsness plays a campy, optimistic, brilliant computer nerd who is often asked to ferret [...]

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Three Card Monte Trick – Putting the Con in Confidence Games!

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Welcome Back To The Underworld Academy! In This Lesson – The Three Card Monte Trick There is an art involved in a successful Three Card Monte Trick just as there is in any good confidence game. Practice is required to train your hands to be quick enough so that you can keep track of the [...]

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The Mob Museum – The Disneyland of Noir

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In downtown Las Vegas, a few blocks away from the neon and glitter of the big casinos, is one of the true hidden gems of Sin City.  And one of its darkest! The Mob Museum in Las Vegas holds what might be the world’s largest collection of crime exhibits and underworld collection and is the [...]

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