The Rap Sheet: Another Death in the Family

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Another Death in the Family

Via Sarah Weinman comes news that New Hampshire author William G. Tapply, creator of the Brady Coyne and Stoney Calhoun series, died last night at age 69. His fans can look forward, though, to more of his work. Tapply’s third Calhoun novel, Dark Tiger, is due out from Minotaur Books in September.

UPDATE: Jiro Kimura of The Gumshoe Site notes that Tapply has yet another novel in the publishing works: The Nomination, a suspense thriller due out next year.

READ MORE: “Author William Tapply Dies,” by Marshall Cutchin (MidCurrent); “William Tapply, 69, Prolific Writer of Mysteries, Non-fiction,” by Bryan Marquard (The Boston Globe).

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“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices, and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.”
— James M. Cain, from the preface to Double Indemnity