books read |
Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz. It's
probably been 40 years since I read of Moriarty and Holme's "death" at
Reichenbach Falls, so the details were sketchy, but this author,
authorized by the A.C. Doyle estate, offers plenty of tie-ins to Holmes
and his career, and plenty of guesswork as to who's who in this clever
novel... I personally was relieved when Sherlock entered the
public domain, so anyone can have fun with his character... Buckskin by Robert Knott One of the most successful proteges of the Hammett style was Robert Parker, who has many accolytes carrying on his own characters, this one in his western style... I doubt Parker would have used supernatural characters, but it's still a page turner... Dashiell Hammett's Lost Stories More a biography with minor stories embedded in the author's timeline, an interesting look into the creator of terse American P. I. fiction genre.. And both he and my father got close contact with Olivia De Havilland when she toured the Aleutians in 1944, but I never asked my father if he ran into Hammett on Adak... |