The Hard Boiled Explicator
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The Hard-Boiled Explicator
Now in Paper! Aimed at both the new student and the seasoned scholar, The Hard-Boiled Explicator offers brief essays on Hammett, Chandler, and Macdonald that highlight their major characteristics, relate them to each other, and show their impact on their public. Cloth edition published in 1985.
Blood to Drink
Bootlegger-turned-nightclub owner Wesley Farrell is back for a fourth round (after Daddy's Gone A-Hunting) in this hard-boiled tale full of 1930s New Orleans period flavor. During Prohibition, Farrell was riding in a car with George Schofield, a Treasury agent investigating local bootlegging scams, when the fed was shot to death. Five years later, Schofield's little brother, James, comes looking to avenge the slaying. James's number-one suspect is Farrell, who doesn't like being in the hot seat--besides, he wants to find the killer himself. The recent shooting of a black cop kicks off a parallel police investigation, and these two trails wind closer and closer as myriad gangsters and lawmen pass in and out of focus.
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
It’s 1938 in New Orleans when Ernie LeDoux is released from Angola after serving a 10-year stretch for knocking over an armored truck. And the first thing on his mind is the $75,000 that he has stashed away with an old friend. It is also on the mind of one of the Crescent City’s most hardened criminals: Archie Badeaux, a cocaine-snorting sociopath and hired muscle for wheelchair-ridden underworld leader Jonathan Lincoln. Badeaux hasn’t forgotten the decade-old heist and aims to follow the ex-convict to the hidden cache. Unfortunately, LeDoux’s friend has recently passed away, taking the money’s whereabouts with him to the grave. Nightclub owner Wesley Farrell (first introduced in 1997’s Anthony-nominated Skin Deep, Blood Red), is a mixed-blood creole “living as a white man in a Jim Crow environment.” When Carol Donovan—a fellow club owner whose looks are “enough to make a Baptist minister drink swamp water, crawl inside a hollow log, and bay at the moon”— appears in his office, Farrell is unknowingly swept into LeDoux’s story.