The Rap Sheet: Don’t Forget to Wear Green

Friday, March 15, 2013

Don’t Forget to Wear Green

Sunday will bring us St. Patrick’s Day. Prepare yourself with Janet Rudolph’s list of mystery fiction fit for this occasion and Declan Burke’s recollection of “five years of truly great Irish crime writing.”

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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