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What these authors
have in common
—indisputably—
is that each one
is a Grandmaster
in
the art of crime fiction
+
he/she
writes
almost exclusively
in that genre
None of them is a stranger
to the "Best-Seller" list
and each writer
is a world-class juggler
of every emotion
under the sun
BEWARE:
Reading these authors
in a public place
can be dangerous
because you may
laugh out loud
without warning
and then shout
obscenities
direct from the author's
script
HOWEVER,
all crime fiction addicts
will tell you
that you would never mistake
a Joseph Wambaugh novel
for a Lawrence Block
and Sue Grafton would be
impossible to mistake
for Mickey Spillane
The problem this blogger
has with the name
"Evan Hunter"
is due to having
his bookcases
overflowing with
novels written by
who happens to be
the very same person as
"Evan Hunter"
FINALLY
I arrive at a conclusion
guaranteed to be
one-hundred percent truth
!!!
When each of these
Crime Fiction Grandmasters
was a toddler,
the short-story collection
featured below
was read aloud to them
by an adult
My sincere apologies
and his gazillion fans
I can only justify
his exclusion
from this list
by the cold-sweat nightmares
I had after reading
thirty years ago
I was too chickenshit
to read anything else
by him
Like Lawrence Block,
Ellroy is the only
other author
still strutting his stuff
on Planet Earth
!!!
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