I haven't read it yet, but Margaret Maron's latest, SLOW
DOLLAR (2002), is about a carnival midway. It's unlikely to
be hardboiled but likely to be good reading.
Joy
Mark Sullivan wrote:
>if Al is including comic books in his carny/circus
bibliography, he
> should certainly include Deadman, another great DC
comic. Although
> probably more in the horror/thriller vein than
hardboiled, it had a
> Fugitive/who was the real murderer premise to it --
it was just the
> ghost of the victim doing the investigating. In a
slight variation on
> the Fugitive connection, wasn't the only thing known
about the killer
> that he had a hook for a hand?
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