Of course there's Denis Lehane's SHUTTER ISLAND, which I found fascinating. It's about two Boston cops investigating a murder in a sanitarium on an island in Boston Harbor.
Patrick King
--- On Thu, 8/20/09, Dick Lochte <dlochte@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Dick Lochte <dlochte@gmail.com>
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: Bodies Are Where You Find Them / Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 2:03 PM
"Puzzle For Fools," by a very good old-school writer (well, two writers)
seldom if ever mentioned here, Patrick Quentin, has series hero Peter Duluth
checking into a sanatorium to dry out when the inevitable murders start. Not
exactly noir nor hardboiled, but a little twisted. More recently, Howard
Swindle's "Jitter Joint" has a cop losing it after witnessing an horrific
crime and being sent to a rehab center that, for some reason I can't recall,
is in the frozen tundra. It combines the murders-in-a- sanatorium plot with
the totally-cut- off-from- the-outside- world situation. The book is worth
looking up, the movie made from it, "Eye See You," starring Sylvester
Stallone isn't as good, but it has a few moments.
Dick Lochte
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