Monthly Archives: December 2011

“Death always doubles off”

The Crazy Kill, by Chester Himes Over Christmas I read an article which quoted PD James. She talked about how the pleasure of crime fiction was the knowledge that by the end of the book order would be restored. Bad … Continue reading

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Filed under African-American Literature, Crime Fiction, Hardboiled, Himes, Chester, Noir, Penguin Modern Classics

I drive. That’s all I do.

Drive, by James Sallis Readers often come to writers with expectations. Sometimes those are based on that writer’s previous work (and those expectations can be a straitjacket for a writer), sometimes they’re based on reviews or blog comments, sometimes they’re … Continue reading

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Filed under California, Crime Fiction, Noir, Sallis, James