Chan,
Re your question below:
> Does anyone recommend any other sports noir books?
Or if
> there even are any?
Lionel White's CLEAN BREAK is a caper novel about the robbery
of a racetrack. I've never read it, but I have seen the film
version, THE KILLING, an early noir by Stanley Kubrick,
justly regarded as one of the all-time great caper
movies.
Dashiell Hammett's RED HARVEST devotes a chapter to a rigged
boxing match, and his short story "His Brother's Keeper," is
also set in the world of the sweet science.
Robert J. Randisi's EYE IN THE RING is the first novel to
feature Manhattan PI Miles Jacboy, simultaneously a licensed
private detective and a middle-weight contender.
Michael Black's Ron Shade, introduced in A KILLING FROST, is
a Chicago PI who also moonlights as a professional
full-contact karate competitor.
Dick Francis, the former champion jockey whose novels all
involve horse racing, seems an obvious choice at first, since
his books are all admirably tough. They have never quite
struck me as noir, though, neither by my definition nor by
Jack's. They're great books, though. Four of them feature an
ex-jockey turned PI named Sid Halley.
JIM DOHERTY
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