By accident I found "Anyone's My Name" by Seymour Shubin and
it's a terrific crime/noir novel. It was orginally published
in 1953 (a year after "Killer Inside Me"), made the NY Times
bestsellers list, and was later re-released in French by
Gallimard. This book really should be as well-known as
"Killer Inside Me" and it's a shame that it isn't. It offers
quite a different view from the mind of a killer. In this
one, you have Paul Weiler, a writer for the true-detective
mags, although he aspires to be more, to write something
worthwhile. When he starts cutting corners in both his
professional and personal life, it triggers a sequence of
events that leads him to a killing. From this point on, more
bad judgement and mistakes doom him. With the heavy sense of
irony
(dripping in it, really) in this book, I have to think it's a
good example of what Mario likes to call post-noir. I highly
recommend it and plan to write an article about it - maybe
contrasting it with "Killer Inside Me", for my next Hardluck
Stories Zine issue.
-Dave Zeltserman
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