Dan J. Marlowe
Birth date: July 10, 1914
Died: July 22, 1986
Dan J. Marlowe's Books
Needed a short-ish diversion to calm and gentle waters, something unchallenging with loveable characters being nice to each other and reached for this. Dan J. Marlowe continues Earl Drake’s story from ‘The Name Of The Game Is Death’ and it’s a wonder the pages don’t burst into flames. It’s not quite...
“I’d taken the law into my own hands, and I liked the feel of it.” Woah. None more hard-boiled. A guns-blazing bank robbery and getaway gets intercut with a rivetting back story (don’t mess with this guy’s friends or pets) that rivals “The Catcher In The Rye” for top notch characterful storytelling....
In the great pantheon of crime books I have read in the last two weeks, I solidly place The man who refers to himself as Roy Martin between the one who calls himself Parker (the pinnacle) and the one who calls himself Nolan (the ordinary).This was a very sharp, tightly written, very hardboiled, mean...