I read a couple of books by San Francisco based
authors:
MENACED ASSASIN - This is a strange book written by Joe
Gores. It is about a San Francisco cop trying to catch a
serial killer. I really liked it, but I'm not sure it works
as a hard boiled book because a good portion of the book is a
lecture about the evolution of man and his character by the
husband of the woman who is the first to be killed. I've read
almost all of Gores' novels. Only this reminds me a lot of
Interface.
STATE'S EVIDENCE - This is a John Marshall Tanner book by
Stephen Greenleaf. I read this for a San Francisco setting,
but except for a fire set in the store of Tanner's landlord,
all the action takes place in a fictitious suburb. The
landlord is a stereotypical gay and the plot is Ross
MacDonald light with an unbelievable ending. I read his Death
Bed several years ago which I thought was fairly good and
much better than this.
Most of our recent discussion about the City has been about a
walking tour rather than its fiction.I've been thinking that
San Francisco, with its hills, fog, great bay and the Golden
Gate Bridge, may be a more appealling cinematic location than
a literary one. Mark .
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