Detectives - the dominant characters of the 20th Century Discuss

[woops]

Hugh K says TS Eliot!! wrote some detective novels under a pen-name but it seems safe to assume they were deductive rather than 2-fisted

 

[WashYourHands]

Steve Bruce, the football manager, has written some crime novels.

Steve Bruce: Inside the literary career of Newcastle manager

Steve Bruce - manager, player, crime writer?

www.bbc.co.uk

“Who did it?”

Steve Bruce - “the Jews!”

this kicked round from my Mum‘s circle but I don’t have the time and it has to be shit

The Head of Gonzo Davies

Gonzo Davies, back-row forward and builder, knows the h…

www.goodreads.com

 

[william_kent]

'Unquestionably one of the worst written books I’ve ever set eyeballs on. Cringey, forced “colloquial” dialogue made it unbearable. Imagine if Danny Dyer wrote a book over a weekend coked up. It’d be better than this.'

I was reading a book called "Judas Pig" by "Horace Silver" ( not the jazz guy ) which is pure Dyer - it's lying unfinished in a pile

 

[woops]

I was reading a book called "Judas Pig" by "Horace Silver" ( not the jazz guy ) which is pure Dyer - unfinished

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this is what i'm getting at when i say Bukowski's Pulp is dedicated to bad writing. He totally transcends this kind of stuff (which has its own fascination)

 

[luka]

Judas Pig.... ive read about that.... hard to get hold of

 

[william_kent]

Judas Pig.... ive read about that.... hard to get hold of

not really, I bought it new off amazon

 

[luka]

not really, I bought it new off amazon

i thought it had been banned cos it is a real account of him and his mates sordid crimes?

 

[william_kent]

totally self-published

 

[version]

No one's going to miss the slag if he cops one in the canister.

 

[william_kent]

i thought it had been banned cos it is a real account of him and his mates sordid crimes?

I bought it because some of the characters are thinly disguised real gangsters

 

[william_kent]

i thought it had been banned cos it is a real account of him and his mates sordid crimes?

His other books are impossible to find though

 

[luka]

His other books are impossible to find though

its alright youve already shot me down, dont try and salve the wound

 

[luka]

has anyone (except me) read the Nero Wolf novels? I've read all of them. he's grotesquely fat. so fat he can't move so he has a handsome boy genius with a photographic memory to do all the leg work. so it's like splitting a detective into two, one gets into fights, gets entangled with various femme fatales, the other one solves the case by using mental genius, fingers to temples, eyes closed, cheeks puffed out.... im a big fan

 

[william_kent]

has anyone (except me) read the Nero Wolf novels? I've read all of them. he's grotesquely fat. so fat he can't move so he has a handsome boy genius with a photographic memory to do all the leg work. so it's like splitting a detective into two, one gets into fights, gets entangled with various femme fatales, the other one solves the case by using mental genius, fingers to temples, eyes closed, cheeks puffed out.... im a big fan

I just did a search and it looks like an erotic werewolf series featuring "knot scenes"

Is this what you were talking about?

 

[luka]

sorry Nero Wolfe is the name of the detective, Rex Stout is the author

 

[luka]

we had a big thread about them a while back

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin

i am a fan. do you read these books?

www.dissensus.com

 

[william_kent]

sorry Nero Wolfe is the name of the detective, Rex Stout is the author

phew! I was worried for a minute or two...

 

[woops]

i've read some of this stuff round your house @luka

 

[luka]

i've read some of this stuff round your house @luka

its comfort reading

 

[woops]

never would have heard of him otherwise