I'm enjoying 70s month and have read the first Spenser book
(The Godwulf Manuscript) the first Scudder (Sins of the
Father) and two of Elmore Leonard's Detroit novels (Swag and
The Switch). I'm anxious to re-read The Last Good Kiss and
still hope to tackle Vern E. Smith's The Jones Men.
Beware, potential spoilers ahead:
Has the tradition of detectives having untrustworthy clients
been discussed round these parts? It's been interesting and
fun to see this as a constant in every decade. When clients
enter the office, the red flag goes up that they are probably
not as they appear. My favorite examples of this come from
The Long Goodbye, The Last Good Kiss and The Black Dahlia
(though this isn't a PI case), but there are many, many other
examples. Can any of our Black Mask experts discuss this
further? Thanks.
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