Noirboiled Notes

If I had anything left to lose, I couldn’t remember what it was. John D. MacDonald The End of the Nigh t 1960

I felt too young. I felt like a child being bathed by an evil nursemaid. I felt that some unspeakable thing was coiling and vomiting in her ...

Having recently read Weep for Me (1951), which John D. MacDonald identified as the worst of his early novels, I felt obligated to follow ...

Weep for Me is one of two novels that Gold Medal let go out of print at John D. MacDonald’s request. (The other was 1963’s I Could Go on Si...

1. Bill S. Ballinger, Portrait in Smoke (1950) 2. James M. Cain, Double Indemnity (1936 ) 3. James McKimmey, T he Long Ride (1961) 4. John D...

For me, a major disappointment. Perhaps my expectations were too high, as I have seen this novel raved about in several notable places, but ...

When you read piles of noir PBOs (or piles of any fictional genre), many of them do, of course, start to seem the same, but this only height...

A one-dollar bill has a humble and homely look. A five-dollar bill has a few meek pretensions. A ten is vigorous and forthright and honest, ...