TOP BOSTON CRIME NOVELS by Thomas O’Malley and Douglas Graham Purdy, authors of Serpents in the Cold and We Were Kings Promised Land (1976), Ceremony (1982), The Widening Gyre (1983) – Robert B. Parker With the dean of American crime fiction, the forefather of all Boston crime writing, there are simply too many books […]
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Ten Things to Learn from Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett
Ten Things to Learn from Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett If you can’t learn from the best, then you’re not reading carefully enough. Here are ten writing tips I learned from the books of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, who together pretty much invented the modern detective story. A detective always has a code. […]
Top 10 Most Thrilling Mountain Survival Books
Top 10 Most Thrilling Mountain Survival Books My writing of Summit was inspired by many literary categories—history, adventure, travel—but, above all, by the great mountain stories that accompanied my climbing days. The ten most important, in chronological order relating to the epoch they refer to, are as follows: Scrambles Amongst the Alps by Edward Whymper […]