Steph Cha's debut novel begins as an homage to the famous gumshoe and Raymond Chandler before ending up exploring vastly different mean streets of L.A. Raymond Chandler is among the undisputed masters of crime fiction, especially for stories set on the mean Southern California streets. His influence on crime fiction helped expand the genre's settings from sunny vicarages to gritty urban centers, set a high standard for using place as character, made the witty observation de rigueur and gave a new twist to the term "gimlet-eyed." Chandler's detective hero Philip Marlowe was very much a man of his times, and Chandler a faithful chronicler of them, which included slurs against minorities and gays and a not-so-subtle demonization of many female characters. Although such tendencies might cause modern readers to wince, they have not diminished his appeal for subsequent generations of crime writers, from Robert Parker to Michael Connelly. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 07/06/2011 - 10:47 Crime writer David Hewson is to novelise the Bafta-winning Danish crime TV series "The Killing" for Pan Macmillan, following the publisher's acquisition of world novelisation rights. Acquiring editor Trisha Jackson said:... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Publication Date: Wed, 13/04/2011 - 09:12 Susan Hill, C J Sansom and Sophie Hannah have all been longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association (CWA)'s Dagger in the Library 2011. Sponsored by Random House Group, the Dagger is awarded to an author for a body of work, with writers nominated by UK... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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