Detectives - the dominant characters of the 20th Century Discuss

[luka]

my dad was into them. detective novels was his favourite mindless reading. he had me reading robert b parker too.

 

[woops]

yeah my dad likes a nice thriller. ross mcdonald. he's into the aesthetic to the extent he had one of those blacked-out mirror portraits of humphrey bogart in the house

 

[version]

Might jump straight into White Jazz after finishing this one.

He's really going for it in this one. I'm only about fifty pages in and we've already had Dave Klein throwing someone out of a window, admitting to fancying and almost sleeping with his sister, setting up and beating a prospective DA and someone drugging and disemboweling a couple of dogs.

 

[Murphy]

@wehatedogscohort

 

[sufi]

Dick Barton - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

My dad was into this back in the day, a huge uk cultural icon now almost completely submerged in obsloete pre internet mass media
You might recognise the theme tune, more or less the only consistent element through repeated reimaginings across different formats... was replaced on the radio by the archers apparently

 

[sufi]

Dick Barton - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

My dad was into this back in the day, a huge uk cultural icon now almost completely submerged in obsloete pre internet mass media
You might recognise the theme tune, more or less the only consistent element through repeated reimagings across different formats... was replaced on the radio by the archers apparently

That theme

 

[IdleRich]

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

What! That simply cannot be true.

 

[IdleRich]

What! That simply cannot be true.

No way.

 

[IdleRich]

No way.

Literally the most surprising thing I have ever seen on dissensus. I can't believe it. Is it a joke or what?

 

[Mr. Tea]

I love the 'put together in Photoshop in five minutes' cover image.

 

[IdleRich]

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

No, but I have read about them, meant to check em out.

 

[IdleRich]

it doesn't count if they're set "in the murky world of"

Dick Francis is the obvious one here... I read a few as a kid, they just always seemed to be kicking around somehow.

 

[IdleRich]

Steve Bruce wrote a book?!

 

[version]

Steve Bruce wrote a book?!

Three books: Striker! Sweeper! and Defender!

 

[IdleRich]

That is THE Steve Bruce, who with Gary Pallister formed the greatest defensive partnership of all time?
He wrote a book?

 

[woops]

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

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side note there is only 1 arcade left in soho and last time i went in there there were no pinball tables at all.

 

[IdleRich]

What's the next one gonna be? False Nine or Goalkeeper?

 

[luka]

its the israeli flag thats intriguing me

 

[version]

its the israeli flag thats intriguing me

It's got a plot based around some Yugoslavian war criminal being hunted by Israeli Nazi hunters in Huddersfield.

 

[version]

‘Sweeper’ by Steve Bruce: A review

"I looked around the stadium and sighed. Football is a business, and a tough one at that, but the green playing area, well, that really is the field of dreams" - Steve Barnes, ‘Sweeper’.Pleas

thesetpieces.com