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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...
SHOTGUN BLAST FROM THE PAST: ED MCBAIN'S COP HATER
Author Evan Hunter launched his influential 87th Precinct series under the pseudonym of Ed McBain in 1956 with Cop Hater . I had read...
"SOMETIMES THERE'S MORE POWER IN IN THE SILENCE IN BETWEEN THE WORDS THAN THEN WORDS THEMSELVES.": THE MEMORY WARD'S JON BASOFF
Jon Basoff uses a Rod Serling starting point for his latest novel, The Memory Ward, where mailman Hank Davies learns that his typical...
SHOTGUN BLAST FROM THE PAST: JOSEPH HANSEN'S SKINFLICK
Skinflick is the fifth book in Joseph Hansen's Dave Brandstetter series. Considered to be the first gay private detective, we find the...
CRACKING CASES IN THE REAGAN ERA: SLEUTHS JUST WANNA' HAVE FUN- PRIVATE EYES IN THE MATERIALISTIC EIGHTIES edited by Michel Bracken
The eighties were an interesting time for fictional private eyes. V.I. Warshawski and Kinsey Millhone broke the glass ceiling. The...
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