Regarding ONLY Authors From ≈ North Of 1950 ...

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Lawrence Block //  Sue Grafton 

  // Evan Hunter //

 Mickey Spillane // Joseph Wambaugh

 

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

"Ed McBain"

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

 

DASHIELL HAMMETT

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My sincere apologies

to author James Ellroy

and his gazillion fans

 

I can only justify

his exclusion

from this list

by the cold-sweat nightmares

I had after reading

THE BLACK DAHLIA

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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