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My ninth original "Monk" novel, MR. MONK IN TROUBLE , is arriving in hardcover in bookstores everywhere today. This book was especially fun for me to write. It gave me a chance to dabble in westerns, something I've always enjoyed reading but, until now, had never tried writing before. The ...
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My crime film fest continued last night with a weird entry from 1972... PRIME CUT starring Lee Marvin as a Chicago enforcer who heads out to the fields of Kansas to collect a $500,000 debt from Gene Hackman, another enforcer who has gone into the cattle business. But beef isn't all Hackman ...
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I was pleased to discover today two great reviews for MR. MONK IN TROUBLE , which comes out tomorrow. Author, blogger, and man-about-town Bill Crider wrote, in part :
The relationship between Monk and Natalie has always been as interesting to me as the mystery plots in these novels, and it ...
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Tonight's showing in my personal film noir film festival was Sam Fuller's PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET starring Richard Widmark as a two-bit pick-pocket who lifts a billfold from a lady's purse on the subway. The billfold contains a stolen film-strip containing a top secret government formula ...
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Today I watched VANISHING POINT, the 1971 movie starring a white Dodge Challenger and Barry Newman. The car was a lot more charismatic that its c0-star. I do not get what all the hoopla is about over this movie, which has a loyal cult following. I thought it was dull and as seemingly endless ...
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I'm continuing my Holiday weekend film festival of crime movies I've alwasy meant to see, but have somehow missed. Last night, I finally got around to THE OUTFIT, writer-director John Flynn's 1973 adaptation of the Richard Stark novel. Robert Duvall played Parker (renamed Macklin) and, ...
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I finally saw Allen Baron's 1961 movie BLAST OF SILENCE , a brutal, cold piece of low-budget film noir that I've been hearing great things about for years. I'm pleased to report that it lives up to the hype...and is unlike any Christmas movie you've ever seen. The fantastic, gravel-voiced ...
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Silence
Back in the mid-80s, when I was still a freelancer writer, I wrote hundreds of articles for STARLOG and their sister magazines, including FANGORIA, COMICS SCENE, and ALLURE, their feeble attempt at their own version of PLAYGIRL. Just what the world needed -- a porn magazine for women published ...
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I'm a big Garry Disher fan ...but as much as I like his Inspector Challis books, I absolutely love his WYATT novels , which are an Aussie take on Donald Westlake's Parker. It has been years since the last one, but now Wyatt is finally back. A new novel, simply called WYATT, will be ...
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Andy Breckman ( the creator of MONK), NBC/U (the owners of MONK) and my editor all loved the outline for MR. MONK GETS EVEN... my 11th original MONK novel. So, next week, I have to start researching and writing. I have no time to waste... the book is due in May. The idea for the book actually ...
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Here's Shirley Bassey's rejected QUANTUM OF SOLACE theme, set to the opening titles. The music is by David Arnold (who clearly lifted some elements from the song in his final QUANTUM score) and lyrics by longtime Bond vet Don Black.
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Tracy Farnsworth at Roundtable Reviews has given MR. MONK IN TROUBLE a rave. She writes, write, in part:
Lee Goldberg always captures Monk's nuances perfectly. He injects the mysteries with just the right amount of humor and tackles subjects I only wish I'd seen on television.[..] When I'm ...
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The Red Adept blog reviews the Kindle edition of my 1985 novel .357 VIGILANTE #2: MAKE THEM PAY and was far kinder to the book than I had any right to expect. Here's an excerpt from the review:
The storyline flowed fast and furious. There wasn’t a lot of thought put out regarding ...
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My friend Richard Wheeler pointed me to this terrific appreciation of Elmer Kelton , one of my favorite authors, in today's Wall Street Journal. Here's an excerpt:
Kelton wrote dozens of conventional westerns, but he never shrank from bending the rules of the genre. As he commented in ...
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The Wall
Louis L'Amour
Willa Cather
Bookgasm's Bruce Grossman gave my brother Tod's new book OTHER RESORT CITIES a rave review today. Here's an excerpt:
The people who populate these stories could totally exist in our society and probably some do. They are just like you and me, but with some truly twisted backstories. Some ...
