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Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham
5.0

This is the noir-iest of noirs, where lurid carnival characters progress to equally lurid vaudeville and then on to the seance racket. Sharp-eyed predators victimize those around them as well as the gullible marks. Well-written, and I loved the centering of each chapter around a tarot card.