Bill Pronzini's THE CRIMES OF JORDAN WISE (Walker, HC, 2006).
Not only the best noir book I've read in years, but takes
place largely in the Virgin Islands.
Ron Clinton
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> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Tropical Noir
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> Hello All,
>
> On a completely new topic...I'm just curious about
what's out there in
> terms of noir set in tropical environs. I know, for
example, that the
> first third of Ross MacDonald's TROUBLE FOLLOWS ME
takes place in
> Hawaii during WW2 and that Raoul Whitfield's Jo Gar
stories are set in
> the Phillipines, but what other tropical settings
have been used in
> noir or hard-boiled literature?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Best,
> Harry
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