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"THAT BROKEN, BRAVE, BEAUTIFUL MAN IS SOMEONE I WANTED TO WRITE FOR": RAYMOND CHANDLER'S TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS' ARVIND ETHAN DAVID
Raymond Chandler's Trouble Is My Business adapted by Arvind Ethan David (script), Ilias Kyriazis (pencil and inks), and Chris Peter...
COVERING A LOT OF RANGE: BILL PRONZINI'S THE HANGING MAN & OTHER WESTERN STORIES
In the forward to his latest collection, The Hanging Man & Other Western Tales, Bill Pronzini, takes certain critics to task. He chides...
DEATH IN THE DESERT: CRAIG JOHNSON'S RETURN TO SENDER
In the latest Sheriff Walt Longmire book, Craig Johnson utilizes a piece of Wyoming trivia, the state having a postal route over three...
"...WE DON'T LIVE IN A SINGLE GENRE.": AN INTERVIEW WITH THE COUNTRY UNDER HEAVEN'S FREDERIC S. DURBIN
Frederic S, Durbin follows the travels and adventures of Ovid Vesper, a saddle tramp whose near death experience in The Civil War may...
PHILIP MARLOWE ILLUSTRATED: RAYMOND CHANDLER'S TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS
Philip Marlowe became the hard boiled P.I. others like to interpret the most. Raymond Chandler's detective with a code and a quip has...
GET TO KNOW BRUCE ELLIOTT: DO YOU KNOW ME? & OTHER ABERRATIONS
Bruce Elliot was one of those workman writers who toiled away in postwar publishing. He got an early start writing stories for The Shadow...
LOOKING INTO THE DARKNESS: DOMENIC STANSBERRY'S THE LIZARD
In the eighties Wild At Heart writer Barry Gifford founded Black Lizard Books . In that original incarnation of the press, not only did...
A WEST WILD & WEIRD: FREDERIC S. DURBIN'S THE COUNTRY UNDER HEAVEN
In The Country Under Heaven, Frederic S. Durbin mixes pulp horror the paperback western through a saddle tramp whose a adventures often...
"THE CLASSICS, TRULY, NEVER GO OUT OF STYLE": BORN A RAMBLIN' MAN AND OTHER STORIES MICHEL LEE GARRETT
I only know Michel Lee Garret from her fiction and bio, but that's enough to realize she's a smart bad ass with heat. She is steadily...
ONE OF A KIND PRIVATE EYE WRITER: JOHN CONNOLLY'S CHILDREN OF EVE
With John Connolly's Charlie Parker series you never know what to expect with each book, The literally haunted detective never has any...
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