One Night Stands and Lost Weekends
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061582141 (006158214X)
Publish date: November 18th 2008
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
American,
Mystery,
Detective,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Pulp,
Short Stories,
Suspense
Maybe three stars. Benefit of the doubt. Slightly above average noir pulp hack work by a young Block. Funny and brutal at the same time (if that makes any sense) and definitely not politically correct as far as rape is concerned. The Ed London stories are average "dame and drink" private dick st...
scott bricksheesh there is one -l-o-n-g- apologee to get through first, read by the author and he admits it's over 25000 words long - far longer than most of the stories in this collection. Oh! he also admits that he can't remember writing them or recall the plots but the publishers are keen to prin...