The Nolan series by Max Allan Collins, part III–Not Quite Parker review and guest post

Note: Huge apologies to Mr. Dan Luft for the long delay in posting his Nolan series. Although I’ve got plenty of excuses, it really is inexcusable.

I’m hoping to get up two more long-delayed guest posts in the coming week or two, and to get back into the groove of regular posting soon.

Thanks […]

The Nolan series by Max Allan Collins, part II–Not Quite Parker review and guest post

The Nolan Series, Part II

By Mr. Dan Luft

After Max Allan Collins published the first two books of his Nolan series, his publisher asked for a full-blown series. Collins then wrote another three volumes, but they would sit unpublished for years after Collins’s first publisher, Curtis, was purchased by Popular Library (I don’t […]

The Nolan series by Max Allan Collins, part I–Not Quite Parker review and guest post

One thing I haven’t done a terribly good job of is covering the various Parker pastiches, homages, tributes, and rip-offs. (I’ll try to do better, I swear!) Fortunately, in the case of Max Allan Collins’ Nolan novels, someone has stepped up to the plate to provide the coverage that I haven’t. That person is […]

The joys of moving (really!), featuring The Wheelman by Duane Swierczynski

I haven’t begun the process of moving in earnest yet. It’s going to be a long process–most of the summer and maybe part of autumn. But I have started laying down the foundation, which means sorting through my massive piles of stuff.

In one box I found something I’d been looking for for ages, […]

Not Quite Parker review: The Hunted–The Dame (#2) by Dave Zeltserman

You get some things right, you get some things wrong.

In my review of The Hunted, the first volume of Dave Zeltserman’s new series of the same name, I wrote:

“I got the impression that Zeltserman just wanted to get the origin story out of the way so that he could get on to […]

Not Quite Parker review: The Hunted #1 by Dave Zeltserman

The Hunted #1 - The Hunted by Dave Zeltserman

One of the neater things about the e-book revolution is that it is somewhat reviving shorter-form fiction. I’ve read more short stories in the year I’ve owned my Kindle than I did in the previous five years combined, as well as more novellas.

It also seems to be reviving pulp fiction and one of […]