I've heard about the stories in this volume for years, but have never tracked one down before -- and then a whole collection of them show up on NetGalley! How could I not request it? I'm so glad this book exists so that those of us who don't get the magazines, etc. that publish short mystery fiction...
Almost three years ago exactly I set out to read every Sherlock Holmes story and novel, considering the length of the average story and the briefness of the novels I should have finished this long since, but, as my reviews attest, at times I could barely stand the bastard.Despite starting strong wit...
Like with most short story collections, there were some that I enjoyed much more than others. As I whole though I did enjoy the entire book. Loren D. Estlemen seems to put together a very well rounded collection of Sherlock stories every single time, and his story always seems to be my favorite o...
As is true of just about every short story collection, this is uneven. I would have given it 2 stars except for the amusing surprise of finding Harlan Ellison in a noir crime collection instead of his usual home in speculative fiction.
The first Nero Wolfe book (1934).Also the first I've ever read.For others in that situation, Nero Wolfe is a corpulent detective who solves crimes essentially from his armchair, with the perambulatory help of Archie Goodwin, who also supplies the muscle when necessary. Clearly, Wolfe owes something ...
Connie Minor, who last occupied a primary position in the Estleman Detroit Historical Crime Novel Series (i.e. "Whiskey River") as a popular journalist in the latter years of Prohibition Era Detroit, returns here as a journeyman in advertising, far removed from past glories. It is the 1950s and Detr...
Thunder City has as its focus the City of Detroit as it was in the decade before the First World War. It's rich with a variety of interesting, well fleshed-out characters (e.g. a powerful Irish-American political boss, an early mafioso [Sal Borneo], the Dodge brothers, Henry Ford, and a son of one o...
The first novel in the 'Detroit Crime Series' in which the city is treated as an organic entity through various decades of the 20th century, "WHISKEY RIVER" spans from the Prohibition Era to the late 1930s. Constantine ("Connie") Minor is a Detroit-based journalist who has made a name for himself co...
Once again, the City of Detroit takes center stage in a novel replete with themes of crime, violence, power plays among the powers-that-be, drug lords, and the police, and the everyday struggles of ordinary people (young and old) to survive and thrive.The year is 1990 and a onetime star pitcher for ...
Loren Estleman was on a recommendation list I've been reading through for both his hard-boiled detective fiction and his Westerns. I read his mystery The Left-Handed Dollar and by and large was impressed with his snappy dialogue and evocative prose. So when I saw this book, one of his westerns with ...
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