E. Richard Johnson was a fine crime writer with most of his novels
written from his prison cell.
E. Howard Hunt is another, although his prison term came after most of
his early crime novels. He did publish novels after his release from
prison.
Of course, ex-con Chester Himes is one of the greats.
There have been many former law enforcement officers who wrote novels.
Paul Bishop has been a detective with the LAPD for thirty years and
Hugh Holton (1946-2001) was a police officer in Chicago who wrote
eight novels.
Richard Moore
--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Thornton"
<bthorntonwriter@...> wrote:
>
> Dorothy Uhnak was also a cop.
>
> And Hammett worked as a private detective before actually writing about
> them.
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Jonathan Bravard
<jon.bravard@...>wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of criminal writers and I can only think of one cop
> > writer
> > in
> > Joesph Wambaugh.
> >
> > Jon
> >
> > On 10/27/08, Jeff Vorzimmer
<jvorzimmer@...<jvorzimmer%40austin.rr.com>>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > If experience was required in order to write convincing fiction,
> > > > almost all the crime fiction books we'd read would have to be
written
> > > > by criminals.
> > >
> > > Or cops.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > THE LOYAL ORDER OF THE QUIDNUNCS
> >
> > 'We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being
confused
> > with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and
wealth with
> > happiness...We are monkeys with money and guns.'
> > -Tom Waits
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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