The Rap Sheet: Crime on a Global Scale

Friday, March 12, 2010

Crime on a Global Scale

Interestingly, there are a few crime novels included on the longlist for this year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Judges will narrow that roster to only six titles next month.

(Hat tip to Crime Scraps.)

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QUOTABLE CRIME

“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