Posted in Administrative, Hardboiled, Mystery, Pulp on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Bookgasm makes me happy and sad all at once. Happy for the wonders that exist in this world, and sad for the time and money needs that constrain them. A great review: this right here looks like a must-have!
Posted in Hard Case Crime, Hardboiled, Mystery, Pulp, Reviews on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
To be frank, I wouldn’t have even writen a review of Mickey Spillane’s Dead Street if I hadn’t liked the book. I have no desire to spit on the fairly recent grave of one of the most popular and influential mystery writers of all time.
Truth be told, I’d never read any Spillane before Dead Street. [...]
Posted in Hard Case Crime, Hardboiled, Mystery, Reviews on July 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Charles Ardai, founder and editor of the absolutely wonderful Hard Case Crime book line, (and husband to fantasy author Naomi Novik, incidentally) has just about the most blatant pen-name in the history of ever: Richard Aleas. If you don’t understand why this is so, say the name out loud. It’s a fun little veneer of [...]
Posted in Hardboiled, Reviews on July 4, 2007 | No Comments »
I am, in large part, a fan of long, sprawling, adventurous types of stories. Maybe it’s because that constitutes the bulk of what I read that I’m so impressed by a hardboiled, pulp-type novel done well: because it manages to pack so much into so little space.
Coming in at a mere 180 pages, Queenpin by [...]
Posted in Hard Case Crime, Hardboiled, Mystery, Reviews on June 25, 2007 | No Comments »
… I’m against killing people.”
Ahh, I just finished the most recent Hard Case Crime offering. That’s always a good feeling.
George Axelrod, the author of The Seven Year Itch, Breakfast At Tiffany’s (the screenplay, clearly), and The Manchurian Candidate, brings the hardboiled, hard drinking conventions of pulp mystery to the publishing world in Blackmailer… the results [...]
Posted in Hard Case Crime, Hardboiled, Reviews on June 20, 2007 | No Comments »
There is another literary (or perhaps “trashy” is the word, but who cares?) love of mine to which I am wholly devoted, and it pains me that I’ve gone this long without addressing it here. That love is the old fashioned hardboiled crime novel. Whether we’re talking about a heist, a detective piece, or just [...]
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