Dispatches From Noir

Once upon a time, I dreamed of being an author. I thought I would write a great noir novel. That never happened, but I still admire the spare, descriptive prose and retro sensibilities of the hard-boiled detective.

I also see people every day. Sometimes I can't help but wonder what Chandler, Hammett, Leonard, Cain or even Fleming might have to say about them. So I take a stab at it. Here is the rogue's gallery of the novels and stories I never wrote. Meet the villains, bystanders, toughs and low-lifes that would populate them.

This is also a journal of my own journeys through the wonderful world of hardboiled/noir crime fiction. I review books and movies, and I’m happy to answer crime fiction questions and give recommendations. I'm also starting to think I might just be able to write some fiction of my own. I don't know how that will turn out. I do know that anything that appears on this page is just a dispatch from the great land of Noir.

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Posted on Friday, 12 October 2012

Fall Day

It was a beautiful fall day. The kind of day that gets onto postcards and makes people look forward to autumn. The sky was blue, the clouds were fluffy. The leaves were the perfect spray of color. The wind was invigorating, not biting.

It was the kind of day where leaves wait their turn to jump off the branch and fall to the ground below. And if I could find a bridge high enough, I’d jump, too. That’s the kind of day it was.

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