Well, Doug, my site is more slanted towards private eyes,
although I was
thinking of adding a trivia list of Private Eye/Con Artists,
such as Jim
Rockford, TenSpeed (from Tenspeed & Brownshoe) and the
like (that Stephen
J. Cannell sure do like dem conmen!), but I can't really
think of many
more. Maybe I need more coffee....
I like a good con, actually. Just a while ago I finished King
Con, by
Cannell, and I rather liked it. Got a bit bumpy at the end,
but overall the
ride was a blast. And 32 Cadillacs by Joe Gores certainly has
a few cons
going on...and didn't Travis McGee run a few scams?
>You mention Paco Taibo: perhaps we should consider him
for a future
>reading. The two novels I have are the originals in
Spanish; I was very
>favorably impressed. Has he been translated? I haven't
seen his novels
>in bookstores.
As far as I know, Mario, An Easy Thing (1990), Some Clouds
(1992), No Happy
Ending (1993), Shadow of a Shadow, and Return to the Same
City (1996)
all been translated into English, and published by Penguin.
They're pretty
readily available up here in Canada. Maybe it's one of those
"For
copyright reasons, this book is not to be sold in the United
States"-type
things.
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