No, please, any and all suggestions are fine. I haven't read
a lot of White, for instance, his stuff is ridiculously hard
to find nowadays.
I used "master criminal" only in the sense of one guy sort of
masterminding the plan. Certainly Dortmunder fits into what
I'm thinking about.
The sort of thing I'm talking about:
Donald Westlake, of course, in both Parker and Dortmunder
mode.
Tom Kakonis's CRISS-CROSS
Max Allen Collins's books about Nolan, I particularly liked
SPREE
Right now I'm reading Lawrence Sanders's THE ANDERSON TAPES,
I'm not sure if I like it yet but it certainly is a Seventies
variant.
Ed McBain's "Deaf Man" entries in the 87th Precinct series,
I'm especially fond of LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE DEAF MAN
I should say I'm interested in books with one crime, or one
crime and the immediate aftermath; not books that are more
"this is how criminals live now" things like THIEVES LIKE US,
say (as fine as that book is).
(There's a whole non-hardboiled variant, interestingly,
mainly European-styled stories of rogues like The Saint or
The Baron or Raffles.)
doug
--- Bill Crider <
macavityabc@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you've read a lot of them, I'm sure you've
read
> Lionel White,
> particularly The Big Caper. Maybe not
exactly
> "master criminals," however.
>
> Bill Crider
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have
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>
>
Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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