The Genesis of Genius

In an apparently unplanned follow-up to actor James Garner’s 81st birthday on April 7, Bookgasm’s Bruce Grossman devotes his “Bullets, Broads, Blackmail & Bombs” column this week to a trio of literary detectives--Lew Archer, Travis McGee, and Shell Scott--who may have helped inspire the character of Garner’s trailer-living, gun-fearing TV private eye, Jim Rockford. Read it here.