Doug Bassett wrote:
>
> If anyone has any opinions about any of these, I'd
be
> interested to hear them. I know most of these
by
> reputation:
>
> James Ellroy -- KILLER ON THE ROAD
First rate and very reminiscent of Carl Panzram's
autobiography, included complete in Thomas Gaddis's KILLER: A
JOURNAL OF MURDER. KILLER was made into a mediocre movie with
James Woods as Panzram, but the book itself is pretty hard to
find, no movie tie-in issued, as far as I know. Panzram was a
very bad man indeed. His last words, on the scaffold to the
hangman: "Hurry it up, you bastard. I could hang a dozen men
while you're fooling around."
> Margaret Millar -- HOW LIKE AN ANGEL
My favorite of Millar's novels, but not really
hardboiled.
BobT
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