Candace Bushnell, lauded authoress of six New York Times bestsellers is most famous for the creation of a character nearly twenty years ago is back this summer with the release of the second of two prequels of that same iconic character, Summer In The City: A Carrie Diaries Novel.

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With my third novel, "The City of Devi, " it seemed natural to return to second-person, in which my lovelorn heroine Sarita could address her missing husband Karun, whom she sets out to find in the desolate streets of war-ravaged Mumbai.

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But it was his third novel, the coming-out tale "The City and the Pillar, " that brought him notoriety.

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When I'd booked my ticket to Cairo a few months earlier, I had envisioned a pleasant week and a half spent wandering around the city, meeting up with old friends and gathering material for a novel that was inspired in part by my time as a student at the American University of Cairo.

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"The Glass Key" (1942), based on Dashiell Hammett's 1931 novel, was the second film made from this influential book, in which organized crime and big-city politics are cozy bedfellows.

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Finally, end the third trilogy with a story about the Joker taking over Arkham Asylum, and use influences from both the famous graphic novel Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth and a few bits from the video game Arkham City.

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