Re: RARA-AVIS: Rare Books Continued - Somebody's Done For

From: Brian Thornton (bthorntonwriter@gmail.com)
Date: 28 Oct 2008

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    Dorothy Uhnak was also a cop.

    And Hammett worked as a private detective before actually writing about them.

    On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Jonathan Bravard <jon.bravard@gmail.com>wrote:

    > Does anyone know of criminal writers and I can only think of one cop
    > writer
    > in
    > Joesph Wambaugh.
    >
    > Jon
    >
    > On 10/27/08, Jeff Vorzimmer <jvorzimmer@austin.rr.com<jvorzimmer%40austin.rr.com>>
    > wrote:
    > >
    > > > If experience was required in order to write convincing fiction,
    > > > almost all the crime fiction books we'd read would have to be written
    > > > by criminals.
    > >
    > > Or cops.
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >
    > --
    > THE LOYAL ORDER OF THE QUIDNUNCS
    >
    > 'We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused
    > with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with
    > happiness...We are monkeys with money and guns.'
    > -Tom Waits
    >
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    >
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