The Rap Sheet: Never Too Old to Be Loved

Friday, March 19, 2010

Never Too Old to Be Loved

In addition to Ed Lin’s recommendation on this page of The Adventures of Max Latin, by Norbert Davis, today’s Web-wide collection of “forgotten books” post includes the following crime-fiction-related works: The Three Coffins, by John Dickson Carr; The Screaming Mimi, by Fredric Brown; Wall of Eyes, by Margaret Milllar; Miss Pink at the Edge of the World, by Gwen Moffat; Murder in the Marais, by Cara Black; The Birthday Murder, by Lange Lewis; and Naomi’s Room, by Jonathan Aycliffe.

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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