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Our Very Own Damon Runyon
This past weekend, J.D. Carpenter and his novel Twelve Trees received high praise from The Sun Times’ book critic Andrew Armitage who deemed Priam Harvey, who first appeared in Carpenter’s Campbell Young Mysteries, a Damon Runyon character. In case, like me, Damon Runyon rings a bell but you can’t quite place the name, Damon Runyon is best known [...]
Twelve Questions on Twelve Trees
Author J.D. Carpenter fills us in on the background of his recently released novel, Twelve Trees.
Tell us about your book.
Twelve Trees is the story of a man sitting on a stool in a bar betting the horseswith the local bookie when events conspire to unseat him.
How did you come up with the idea for this [...]
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