Michael Collins
Birth date: January 01, 1964
Died: August 19, 2005
Michael Collins's Books
It’s Hallowe’en night in a small Midwestern town and just as everyone is turning in for the night police officer Lawrence is called to investigate what looks like a hit and run accident. A little girl, still wearing the angel wings of her costume, has been discovered under a pile of a autumn leaves...
Set in a northern college, "Death of a Writer" focuses on E. Robert Peddleton, a once promising visionary writer who, after a string of literary failures, exiles himself at the college as an unpopular professor. Meanwhile, his rival Allen Horowitz, has become quite successful in the literary world, ...
Collins makes the basic error of failing to supply me with one single character I can like in this oddly plotted crim.
More lovely observations, but Collins fails to keep the plot twist unsignalled.
This is one of my favorite classic hard-boiled PI series.
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