"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by Vera Caspary “But I warn you, McPherson, the activities of crooks and racketeers will seem simple in comparison with the motives of a modern woman.” A girl has been murdered in her upper-class apartment, and a murder investigation is beneath the qualifications of the lieutenant assigned to the case. But he does his duty... Continue Reading →
by Theodore Sturgeon It is, it is, it really is fiction. Unless you’ve had it ruined for you, and I’m not going to do so, you can’t possibly expect what you’re in for with this novel. Even a brief story synopsis will be detrimental to those who’re interested, so you get only the broadest stroke:... Continue Reading →
by Charles Willeford Sober, I was always embarrassed about my appearance, but I didn’t intend to stay sober very long. An extraordinarily bleak tale, even for the noir genre, Pick-Up is the story of a failed artist, now a grill man in San Francisco, working just enough to make sure he’s able to keep up... Continue Reading →
by Patricia Highsmith There was a specious ease about everything, like the moment just before something was going to explode. Tom Ripley, right off the bat known as a spurious character as he ducks into a bar to hide from an unknown pursuer who could be after him for numerous reasons, finds himself conning a... Continue Reading →
by Cornell Woolrich A bullet either stopped you or it didn’t; either way, what difference did it make? Scotty, a down-on-his-luck homeless man gets a job as a driver for a wealthy Miami man when he returns the rich man’s lost wallet, money intact. Scotty falls in love with the man’s wife and they escape... Continue Reading →
by Cornell Woolrich Out of all the thousands and thousands of fine constructive women in this world, what evil star made him pick her out? What got him about her? Couldn’t he see, couldn’t he tell---? Told entirely from Alberta ‘Angel-Face’ French’s point of view, our female protagonist learns her husband is having an affair... Continue Reading →
by Cornell Woolrich “When the laws of nature conflict with indisputable evidence like this, the laws of nature go into the discard. Who is to say what they are anyway—you? I?” Manning, a recently successful promoter, convinces Kiki, his recently successful starlet client at the top of her game, to brandish a jaguar on a... Continue Reading →
by Cornell Woolrich Whatever this whole thing was that had happened, he knew he was about to have it explained to him. In just a few minutes now. And that was no solace. A man wakes up to find people all around, an ambulance on the way, and no memory of the last three years... Continue Reading →
by Cornell Woolrich “The really clever woman is all things to all men.” Based on Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill movies (or is it the other way around?), The Bride Wore Black is a dark mystery novel of revenge with an atypical femme fatale. This time, instead of the monstrously attractive woman wrangling the wills of... Continue Reading →
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