Mark wrote:
Out of curiosity, have you read Miami Blues, his cop
novel?
************** Yes I have, and I really liked it. But The
Burnt Orange Heresy was major. It transcended the genre.
Hahaha! I've read several of his but I'm drawing a blank on
some of them. Cockfighter, of course, which I thought good
but not as good as everybody else. Difference is the one that
I really didn't much care for. Near as I can tell it was
written as a criticism on the noble cowboy character. I
really didn't need a whole novel to tell me that the image
might be a little on the bogus side. I can't name the one I
just read recently about a bunch of "ordinary" guys who cover
up a questionable death. Somebody said that Willeford thought
it was his best, but I think Hammett's favorite was The Thin
Man (or was it Glass Key?), so I don't put much stock in
that.
miker
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