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 Best Author Ever, Musketeers, Mystery, Pérez-Reverte, Reviews, Swashbuckling on July 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Forgive me for stealing my title from the review excerpt on the cover for The Club Dumas, but it really sums up the book quite nicely.
It is a rare occurrence (for me, at least) when reading a book will really make me wish that I could have a conversation with the author. Not a [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Musketeers, Mystery, Pérez-Reverte, Swashbuckling on July 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I generally try to avoid going on too much about a book that I’m in the middle of (thereby leaving more for me to say when I actually review it) but I have to say that The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte is off to a monumentally good start in my opinion. (Since I quote [...]
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 [...]
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