What do you recommend for 1970s reading? I can think of a few
things, starting with series:
- Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder books, though only the first
three are
from the '70s, and the two masterpieces come in
1982 and 1986
- the Parker books by Richard Stark/Donald E. Westlake, which
had four
entries and then went on hiatus until 1997
- John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee, Ross Macdonald's Lew
Archer, Donald
Hamilton's Matt Helm, and Richard S. Prather's
Shell Scott continued on
- black writers like Donald Goines, and books inspired by
the
blaxploitation movies (and Tidyman's Shaft
series)
- Charles Willeford's two books: THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY and
THE HOMBRE
FROM SONORA (aka THE DIFFERENCE)
- Mickey Spillane wrote a few, but who wants to reread a
Tiger Mann book?
James Ellroy and Loren Estleman's Amos Walker didn't kick in
until 1980. I got stuck trying to think of more names, and I
have little from this decade on my shelves. The Vietnam war
had a big effect on American writers, but I can't think of
relevant examples. What was going on with HB writing in the
UK and France in the '70s?
Bill
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