So many good recommendations! I've always thought the seedier
aspects of the world of boxing provides a great setting for
noir (not to mention I love both noir novels and boxing).
Now, if a good noir writer could come up with a novel on
mixed martial arts, that would be the best. I heard Christa
Faust was planning something along those lines. Anyway,
here's another good boxing + crime recommendation: Murder on
the Ropes, an Otto Penzler anthology with original stories by
Loren Estleman, F.X. Toole, Joyce Carol Oates and
others.
-Gonzalo. saddlebums.blogspot.com
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "T. Kent Morgan"
<tkmorgan@...> wrote:
>
> Harry Crews has been mentioned on this list and his
novel The Knockout
> Artist is about a boxer involved in the New Orleans
underworld.
English
> crime novelist Russell James' novel Count Me Out is
the story of two
> brothers, one of whom is a boxer in a travelling
carnival. I've never
read
> James, but his books are well-received by reviewers.
A blurb on the
cover
> from Time Out says "Count Me Out is as English as
Graham Greene or Ted
> Lewis." Maybe John Williams can chime in about this
one.
>
> Kent Morgan
>
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