Theodore Sturgeon's "Cellmate" (from 1947, Weird Tales) is a
pretty hardboiled story about two prisoners in a cell. It's
told in a chatty, colloquial style and packs quite a punch.
Recommended.
I seem to remember some people saying that Sturgeon wrote the
short story
"The Darker Drink" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1947) for
Leslie Charteris, and also the novel THE SAINT SEES IT
THROUGH (1946). Anything remotely hardboiled or noirish in
these? Todd?
Juri
PS. Sturgeon's law: what a bunch of crud. If 90 % percent of
everything was crap, we wouldn't have this list or then
there's thousands of cruddy hardboiled and noir novels being
published each year.
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