![]() Whether the early short stories preceded or followed A HALO FOR NOBODY (Simon & Schuster, 1947) is anyone’s guess: my own is that at least the first couple of them came first. It was also early in 1947 that Chambers debuted as protagonist of a hardcover novel. The character he created for the magazine was Peter Chambers, a tough but sophisticated Manhattan private richard (as he prefers to call himself) whose first appearance in short-story form was “A Glass of Milk” ( Esquire, February 1947). At the time of Esquire’s hunt for a new series character he seems to have published nothing, and what the editors saw in him is likewise a mystery. Whether he served in World War II is also unknown. How long he practiced law is unknown, but it does seem clear that he preferred writing to legal work. He was born in New York City on as Henry Cohen and apparently graduated from one of the city’s several law schools in the 1930s. ![]() ![]() About the life of Henry Kane very little has surfaced. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Watson” character, referring to Watson’s position in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series as the companion and chronicler of the brilliant detective. Christie admitted she got the idea for the ending from her brother-in-law, James Watts, who mused on a detective novel in which the criminal turns out to be the “Dr. The novel features one of Christie’s most beloved characters, the detective Hercule Poirot, who himself appears in 33 of Christie’s novels and 65 of her short stories.Ĭonsidered by many to be Christie’s masterpiece, the novel is nonetheless controversial for it’s stunning ending. First published in 1926, The Murder of Roger Ackroydis one of the most celebrated and controversial detective novels of all time. ![]() ![]() I love an unreliable narrator and Sawyer ranks amongst the best fiction has to offer, mixing with Frank (my all-time favourite) from The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks), Alex from A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess) and Tyler Durden from Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk). Hell, I was so engrossed I felt I was sitting in the same room as the teenager casually dropped his bombs. ![]() Night of the Mannequins features a classic unreliable narrator, Sawyer Grimes, who completely steals the show with the unburdening of his bizarre tale. It also had a strong whiff of YA and older teenagers may find much to enjoy, equally so with his excellent werewolf novel Mongrels. Rest assured, this beautifully constructed novella is incredibly dark, very funny, slightly twisted and arguably an upside down coming-of-age tale. It is hard to say much about the plot without spilling spoilers, so I will be relatively cryptic and refer to certain proceedings out of context. ![]() ![]() Stephen Graham Jones has written some terrific short stories and novellas, with Night of the Mannequins sitting comfortably alongside his best work. ![]() |