Black Wings

A Time Like This

        Life is a rental proposition with no lease. For everybody, tall and short, muscles and fat, white and yellow, rich and poor. I know that now. And it is good to know at a time like this.

Elliot Chaze
Black Wings Has My Angel
1953

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Dan Gozee

      https://www.vulture.com/2016/01/black-wings-has-my-angel-a-perfect-crime-novel.html

When a Poor Man Dies

       When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn't simply quit living. He quits being rich too. Of course a poor man quits being poor when he dies, but that is not a thing to lament.

Black Wings Has My Angel
Elliot Chaze
1953

https://yellowedandcreased.wordpress.com/2014/07/20/black-wings-has-my-angel-elliott-chaze/

Things That Don't Matter

         After all, no matter how long you live, there aren't too many delicious moments along the way, since most of life is spent eating and sleeping and waiting for something to happen that never does. You can figure it up for yourself using your own life as the scoreboard. Most of living is waiting to live. And you spend a great deal of time worrying about things that don't matter and about people that don't matter and all this is clear to you when you know the very day you're going to die.

Black Wings Has My Angel
Elliott Chaze
1953

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Eduardo Salvatore

1943

         https://www.npr.org/2016/01/23/463226173/black-wings-is-a-devilish-trip-worth-taking

A Time Like This

        Life is a rental proposition with no lease. For everybody, tall and short, muscles and fat, white and yellow, rich and poor. I know that now. And it is good to know at a time like this.

Elliot Chaze

Black Wings Has My Angel

1953

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Mead Schaeffer

I Never Heard

        She was sitting on the floor naked, in a skitter of green bills. Beyond her was the custodian, still simpering in death. She was scooping up handfuls of the green money and dropping it on top of her head so that it came sliding down the cream-coloured hair. She was making a noise i never heard come out of a human being.

Elliot Chaze

Black Wings Has My Angel

1953

https://www.vulture.com/2016/01/black-wings-has-my-angel-a-perfect-crime-novel.html

After All

         After all no matter how long you live, there aren't too many really delicious moments along the way, since most of life is spent eating and sleeping and waiting for something to happen that never does. You can figure it up for yourself, using your own life as the scoreboard.

Elliot Chaze
Black Wings has My Angel
1953

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Esther Bubley

          https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/830655-black-wings-has-my-angel

Good to Know

         From a slick tyre tread or the hiccups or from kissing the wrong woman. Life is a rental proposition with no lease. For everybody tall and short, muscles and fat, white and yellow, rich and poor. I know that now. And it is good to know at a time like this.

Elliot Chaze
Black Wings has My Angel
1953

         https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/830655-black-wings-has-my-angel
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Herbert List

No One's Immune

         But no one's immune to thinking. Try drawing a blank for any length of time, emptying your head of everything and still you land on a color, a shape, a personality, a grievance.

Elliott Chaze

Black Wings Has My Angel

1953

      https://www.vulture.com/2016/01/black-wings-has-my-angel-a-perfect-crime-novel.html

With No Lease

Life is a rental proposition with no lease.

Elliot Chaze

Black wings has My Angel

1953

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Ernst Haas
New York 1952

A Rich Man Dies

When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn't simply quit living. He quits being rich too.

Elliot Chaze

Black Wings Has My Angel

1953

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Motel Pool Cleaner
Tony Peters

Rain - Darkness

         I remember getting up and coming back to her, and of throwing a shoe at the light bulb later, when the whiskey was gone. I remember the smell of rain-darkness in the room and her telling me i'd cut my feet on the light-bulb glass on the floor. And how she said i was no better than a tramp myself ........

Elliott Chaze
Black Wings Has My Angel
1953

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    https://www.vulture.com/2016/01/black-wings-has-my-angel-a-perfect-crime-novel.html

2013 Upcoming Releases

Cold in July - Based on Joe Lansdale

Deep Blue Goodbye - Based on John D. McDonald

Trouble is my Business - Based on Raymond Chandler

Black Wings has my Angel - Based on Elliott Chaze

All Noirs supposedly in production for 2013

Top Twenty Hardboiled/Noir

     Here's the books i would nominate as my favourites. Some a little bit left-field and loosely fitting in terms of the Hardboiled or Noir fiction label.

Friends of Eddie Coyle- Geo V Higgins
Postman Always Rings Twice- James M Cain
The Grifters- Jim Thompson
The Hunter- Richard Stark
Long Goodbye- Raymond Chandler
Street 8- Douglas Fairbairn
New Hope for the Dead- Charles Willeford
The Getaway- Jim Thompson
Fat City- Leonard Gardner
Unknown Man no-89- Elmore Leonard
Red Harvest- Dashiell Hammett
They Shoot Horses Don't They- Horace McCoy
The Burglar- David Goodis
Nightmare Alley- William Lindsay Gresham
In Cold Blood- Truman Capote
Fast One- Paul Cain
Asphalt Jungle- WR Burnett
Pick up- Charles Willeford
Cool hand Luke- Donn Pearce
The Hustler- Walter Tevis

          There's some obvious others lurking in the shadows, around the edges .... like James Lee Burke, Chester Himes, Ellroy, Pelecanos, Woolrich, Lawrence Block, Ross MacDonald, Walter Moseley, Jason Starr, Derek Raymond and some one-offs like Falling Angel- Hjortsberg, Black Wings Has My Angel, True Confessions and You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up.