Try Fredric Brown's THE SCREAMING MIMI or THE FABULOUS
CLIPJOINT. He has a way of combining character and plot in
such a way that I actually felt kind of screwed up for a
couple of days after reading these (especially MIMI.) His
plots don't have particular twists so much as they're just
twisted. I havn't read THE LENIANT BEAST yet but I'll always
pick up a book if I see his name on it. Leigh Brackett is one
I have to catch up on in terms of novels, but her short
stories are amazingly hard-boiled and generally well-written.
Anyone read much Bruno Fischer? I've just read HOUSE OF FLESH
and highly recomend it, (though not as highly as MIMI.)
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