To kick things off early, in honor of the New Month and new
topic, I have a question that's bothered me for some
time.
Does anyone know what became of Thomas Maxwell?
It was commonly understood that the name was a pseudonym, but
I've never learned who he really was. He appeared on the
scene in 1987 with the entertaining, emotional, film-noir
pastiche KISS ME ONCE. Followed it with the even more
emotional, and far less pastiche, THE SABERDENE VARIATIONS.
1988 brought the (to me, cruelly disappointing) sequel, KISS
ME TWICE. Then, in 1990, Maxwell produced THE SUSPENSE IS
KILLING ME, which I found even less satisfying than KISS ME
TWICE. And then he disappeared.
I read these when they were first issued, and I was a younger
man, but the author's first two books struck me as remarkably
accomplished works that managed to balance homage to noir
works of the past with a genuine emotional intensity that
gave them a resonance quite a bit beyond that of most
pastiche.
Does anyone know any more about this author?
John Hocking
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