This is one of roman durs, or 'hard novels' as Simenon liked to called them to distinguish them from Maigret's novels. Written in confessional tone, almost like a 140 pages of letter to judge, it tells a story of a troubled man and his affair with some woman who he ultimately killed. Everything he did and not did appear in his letters, like he is confessing all of his sins to unknown judge, and at the end of the novel he kills himself in his cell.
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
My first crime short story collection is soon to be released
Many years of studying and reading crime fiction compelled me to write my own crime book. It is mostly detective stories mixed with surrealism, black humor, horror and fantasy. Thanks to Boban Knežević for making this come through.
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Giorgio Scerbanenco - Betrayal
Italy never developed a crime fiction tradition as extensive as those of Britain or the United States. However, the famous Il Giallo Mondado...
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Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone remains one of the most notorious figures in American criminal history. Born in 1899 in Brooklyn to I...
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While many consider Hammett, Chandler, or even Horace McCoy as the titans of noir, I’d argue none of them reached the psychological depths J...
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Cornell Woolrich’s The Bride Wore Black (1940) remains one of the most haunting works of noir fiction, a chilling exploration of grief, o...

