The Long Goodbye (1953) is a milestone in the genre. This novel demonstrated for the first time that hard-boiled fiction could serve as a vehicle for social comment and critique. While the apparent plot is slower paced and less metaphoric than...
First in a series of Emile Cinq-Mars novels, "City of Ice" portrays Montreal as a schizoid landscape, delineated by language, the playground of Russian criminals and American spies and a tough place for a...