by Neil Albert | Dec 7, 2020 | Blog Posts
Why Ross Macdonald? Because he is one of the three greatest writers in the genre of the hardboiled private eye, along with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chander. We can leave the exact ranking for another day. And because I once read a Ray Bradbury short story with the...
by Neil Albert | Mar 8, 2019 | Blog Posts
The title of his book Trouble Follows Me, is From His Own Life A child is just three when his father abandons him and his mother. His father fails to provide support. His mother, weakened by both physical and mental illness, is often bedridden. When he is...
by Neil Albert | Mar 1, 2019 | Blog Posts
The Marple Township Library, 1973 I was a first-year law student, living near a public library in a Philadelphia suburb. I hadn’t used a public library since I was in grade school, but I was broke, and it was a block from my apartment. I hadn’t read any mysteries at...
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