>and my great good buddy, Gary Phillips from
LA,
who has the Ivan Monk PI series (the first, VIOLENT SPRING is
in
paperback and about the LA riots after Rodney King--good
stuff).
I am re-reading Violent Spring right now. It is not really
all that
hardboiled, but it is a remarkably well structured and well
written P. I.
novel. I approached this one with caution because it was
published by a
small press, and sometimes the quality of the writing is not
all that it
should be. But, the writing here is wonderful, as is the use
of LA as a
setting.
I am re-reading this book because Gary Phillips is on a panel
I am doing at
B'con'97 in Monterey. For those of you who are going, the
panel is a two
part deal. Part One is Thursday at 3 pm and is called Setting
Up Office in
California: the PI Finds A Home. It will feature me talking
about
Chandler, Marv Lachman talking about Pronzini/Nameless, Ted
Fitzgerald
talking about Ross Macdonald, and George Easter talking about
Walter
Moseley. Part Two is on Saturday at 4:30 and it features Gary
Phillips,
Janet Dawson, Joe Gores and Robert Crais. This panel will
deal with how
each of these authors uses CA as a setting for their PI
novels.
Once again I am making an offer for anyone on the list to
e-mail me if they
want to try their hand at the PI trivia panel. We are making
up teams of
players and the game is kind of structured like Jeopardy,
execpt no
individual need answer a question, rather the teams will
consult. So far I
have Maggie Mason, Willetta Heisling, Susan Eggers, Ted
Hertel and Sara
Paretsky. Yes, the first lady of PIs is playing the game. Any
takers?
>check out Gary
Neibaur's P.I.E.S. site he deals with Private Eyes
only.
Despite the spelling, I want to thank Mari for the plug. You
can find me
by clicking on the signature below. For those of you
following my
struggles to finish the listings, I believe I now have the
"K" authors up!
Best, GWN.
P.I.E.S. (Private Investigator Entertainment Service)
Catalogs of new and used private eye fiction
Gary Warren Niebuhr, Owner
P. O. Box 341218
Milwaukee, WI 53224
piesbook@execpc.com
<http://www.execpc.com/~piesbook/piescatalog.html>
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