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October 8th, 2004
12:07 pm - I should have included this in my last post
I should have mentioned my favorite mystery writers. I mentioned Raymond Chandler, Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton and Kate Allen (the earlier ones) and Marcia Muller (the later ones)*. I should also say that I love the Lawrence Block burglar series, Walter Mosely,** Liza Cody, Gar Anthony Haywood, Eric Ambler, Val Mcdermid,(I like the early ones and the later ones both, but in different ways) GM Ford, Manuel Vazquez Montalban, Michael Nava,(the later ones) and Charles Willeford. I like Dashiel Hammett but he disapoints me because he’s not Chandler. I always wanted him to be better because he was writing in SF and Chandler was in LA. Eventually I just had to concede. Also if you see any mysteries on Pluto Press, pick ‘em up because they did a whole series of Lefty mysteries that I’m pretty sure are now all out of print.
I’m sure I’m forgetting a bunch because I try and get all my mysteries from the library.
*ok, I like her books, but it drives me nutty the way that some character will ask the main character at least once a book about her Native American background (I don’t remember I think like 1/16 Cherokee or something) that never comes up in any other way but to make the character a little more exotic. And some of those early books are unreadable, she became a much better writer over time.
** I really wanted to hate him when Bill Clinton said Mosely was his favorite author. But Mosely’s too good. I just decided that Clinton was just lying instead.
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