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Duane Spurlock

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in The United States

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http://duanespurlock.blogspot.com/

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Fiction, Thriller

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Duane Spurlock writes adventure and fantasy-oriented action tales. He has written both new stories featuring characters from the Golden Age of the pulp fiction era--the 1930s and 1940s--and novels and stories about new characters set in various eras, including the Wild West, the present day, and the decade of the 1950s in which history has followed an alternate course from the one we know today.

Spurlock has published stories both in print editions and as eBooks.

He also has worked as an illustrator for certain books, particularly those written by Brian Showers. One of those, The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories, won the Children of the Night Award from the Dracula Society.

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SPACE DETECTIVE: A novel excerpt

I set up the distribution for Space Detective to avoid limiting access to just Amazon and/or Barnes & Noble, so readers could procure it from their preferred online dealer, whether for a paperback or an ebook edition. Even libraries and retail brick-and-mortar stores can order and put this book on their shelves.

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	A Quiet Night in the Dark in La Plata, Missouri, 1942 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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