Tag Archives: hard-boiled detective fiction

Black Shadows – Simon Swift

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Ela

(Wild Wolf Publishing 2011) I was sent a copy of this for review directly from the author as a proofed PDF – incidentally it’s allowed me to try out the Kindle’s file conversion service which is generally good (and very … Continue reading →

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Meet Me At The Morgue – Ross Macdonald

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Ela

(Vintage e-book 2010, originally published in 1953) This is one of Macdonald’s earlier novels, and doesn’t feature Lew Archer, his main protagonist and narrator, but with very little alteration, Meet Me At The Morgue could be an Archer novel. The … Continue reading →

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The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Ela

(Penguin Red Classics 2006, originally published 1934) Nick and Nora Charles are staying for Christmas in New York, when Dorothy Wynant, who remembers Nick from when he used to be a detective, introduces herself and asks Nick if he knows … Continue reading →

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The Instant Enemy – Ross Macdonald

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Ela

This book begins immediately at the Sebastian house, where Keith and Bernice’s daughter Alexandria, more commonly known as Sandy, has gone missing, along with her father’s shotgun and a box of ammunition. Keith Sebastian has hired Lew Archer to find … Continue reading →

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Sleeping Beauty – Ross Macdonald

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Ela

(Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2000, originally published 1973) This is one of Macdonald’s later Lew Archer novels: the last, The Blue Hammer, was published in 1976 (Macdonald died in 1983, at the age of sixty-eight). There’s a rather dark and nocturnal … Continue reading →

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The Barbarous Coast – Ross Macdonald

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Ela

(Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2007, originally published 1956) Ross Macdonald was the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar, who was married to Margaret Millar, also a writer of detective/mystery novels. His novels featuring private detective Lew Archer were written in the ‘hard-boiled’ tradition … Continue reading →

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