"Because Murder is More Fun Away From Home"
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| Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Dorchester County, Md. Photos by your humble blogkeeper |
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| My nice haul at Mystery Loves Company in Oxford. |
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| We drive by night. |
Labels: bookstores, Chesapeake, Donald Hamilton, Eastern Shore, images, independent bookstores, Maryland, Matt Helm, Mystery Loves Company, noir photos, Robert Mitchum, what I did on my vacation
posted by Peter Rozovsky at 11:48 PM
This blog is a proud winner of the 2009 Spinetingler Award for special services to the industry and its blogkeeper a proud former guest on Wisconsin Public Radio's Here on Earth. In civilian life I'm a copy editor in Philadelphia. When not reading crime fiction, I like to read history. When doing neither, I like to travel. When doing none of the above, I like listening to music or playing it, the latter rarely and badly. Click here to find an independent bookstore near you.
6 Comments:
Ah, the glorious, florid world of paperback pulp originals. I wonder why more publishers (Hard Case excepted) do not turn back the calendar and rely upon good old-fashioned cover-art marketing. Those were the good old days. Even when the novels were wretched, the covers were treasures.
I guess noir lurks everywhere.
I remember posting something in your comments once about Knoxville (my hometown) -- was it the Knoxville reference in Pulp Fiction? Anyway, Knoxville has turned up twice in the Horace McCoy book I'm finishing up right now: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. It's so good, I almost can't take it.
R.T., along with the books in the photo, I bought a sampler that contained chapters from Hard Case Crime's first three novels.
In re cover art, in Richard S, Prather's case, the jokes are as over the top as the covers.
Kelly, I am not making this up, but the book I will finish right now is Horace McCoy's Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. The ice has just been delivered, Jinx is out of the way, "Cotter" and Holiday have made violent, depraved love, and ...
Whoa! Serendipity! Isn't it great? I've got I Should Have Stayed Home ready to go next.
I had They Shoot Horses, Don't They? on deck, at least until my recent purchases. My McCoy binge was sparked by his story "The Mopper-Up," which is available free online and which I recommend.
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