Although published in 1976, A Death in the Life exudes a certain late 1950s Greenwich Village vibe. After all, who really said After all, who still really said “dig it” to mean “like” or “understand” by the time Gerald Ford was president?Our protagonist, Julie Hayes, is a second-rate actress who ...
A well-written, if rather ploddingly paced, procedural with one of those "likable and misunderstood" killers one step ahead of the cops.Tim Brandon's a poor woobikins who, from what I could gather, was out-and-out molested by his mom, hated by his dad for being a sissy poet, and has a real whore-...
Dorothy Salisbury Davis was considered as one of the Grand Dames of crime fiction, but she didn't start out as a writer, working first in advertising and as a librarian. She published her first novel in 1949, The Judas Cat, and since authored 20 novels and received seven Edgar Award nominations. ...
This was an interesting mystery novel. A priest is summoned by a neighborhood boy to the side of a man dying in the basement of an abandoned building. In the few minutes that they talk, the priest is intrigued by this mysterious man. The story is as much about the search for who this man really w...