Two privates appeared from nowhere, pale in their uniforms like young ghosts, trapped by reality. I got out and followed them across Main and into a magazine shop near the corner. The unlit neon sign of Tom's cafe was almost directly across the street. Beer on Tap, Steam Beer, Try our Spaghetti Special. The soldiers were inspecting a rack of comic books with the air of connoisseurs. They selected half a dozen each, paid for them and left. 'Milk Sops' the clerk said. He was a grey-headed man with smeared spectacles. 'They draft them in didees these days. Cradle to grave in one jump'.
Ross MacDonald
The Ivory Grin
1952
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Jack Delano
Ross Macdonald and Lew Archer, best p.i. series ever.
ReplyDeleteYes...... One of the few who has come anywhere near Chandler and Philip Marlowe .... Give us your 10 best Noir detectives ?
DeleteLew Archer, Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Chet Drumm, Travis McGee, Mac, Tony Rome, Dan Fortune, Amos Walker, Jacob Asch.
ReplyDeleteWould agree with most of those although i haven't read Chet Drumm and Mac. I would prob include Matt Scudder,Hoke Moseley, Marsh Tanner and Gravedigger & Coffin Ed mixed in there somewhere.
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