Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators ... By Sarah Weinman When the hard-boiled private-eye detective story was born about a hundred years ago, the United States ...

Fortunately in the writing of his books Chandler ... brash young detective. There is pathos, too, in the idea that a man who can write like a fallen angel should be a mere private eye; and ...

Here are 22 Afrofuturist books recommended ... and homicide detective who's now working as a private eye. "Vampire crack baby epidemic and a former light-skinned Black supermodel-turned-private ...

With his 1990 debut novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, crime writer Walter Mosley introduced readers to a new kind of hard-boiled hero: a Black private eye navigating a racist world. Sixty books and ...

The author, Polly MacManus, singled out Allison for a reason: He was black, she was white, and she wanted his advice on how to write from the point of view of a black detective. Allison warned Mac ...

And that doesn't include the history books. And the black people in California ... By Little Scarlet, the ninth book, Easy has become a private eye, and the Watts riots have reduced his old ...

Harry, a Black freelance news ... author of gay detective novels featuring private eye Donald Strachey. Decades ago, I reviewed one of those Strachey books, and Dick and I became fast friends.

In recognition of Black History Month, we have gathered a selection of books by Black authors and about Black lives that were published this February and reviewed in Publishers Weekly. Among the ...

Featuring a Depression-era private eye, “Shadow Ticket” will be the ... when he published “Bleeding Edge,” a surreal detective story about a fraud investigator in New York City in 2001 ...