Boy, after getting all of these reports on the current status
of all of those ex-con writers, I'm beginning to feel like a
parole officer. Thanks for the info, by the way.
Okay, I said I'm reading Bunker's memoir and we've recently
brought up Jack Black's You Can't Win and Iceberg Slim's
Pimp. Then there are books by Chessman, Abbot and Cleaver.
Didn't Willie Sutton have a book, also?
Anyway, there is clearly an appeal to true-life criminal
exploits. So how far back does it go? If I remember
correctly, didn't Poe and Dickens both base detectives
(arguably the first fictional detectives) on the memoirs of a
French (?) thief taker? Not exactly a crook, but not really a
cop either.
Also, any recommended hardboiled ones other than the
above?
Mark
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