Noirboiled Notes

Marvelous. I ’ve just committed my first venal sin and it feels marvelous.           P. J. Wolfson           Is My Flesh of Brass?     ...

Don’t ever get a girl that’s gotta get in by ten o’clock. Eleven, yes, but not ten.           P. J. Wolfson           Is My Flesh ...

I still don ’t know what this is all about. Please, will you stop being a woman?           P. J. Wolfson           Is My Flesh of Brass? ...

How do you know that, deep down, an abortionist is a good guy? When he charters a plane in bad weather to fly across country to perform a...

P. J. Wolfson, author of Bodies Are Dust (one of the great early noirs), is the one in the yellow shirt with the blue stripe around the co...

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, William Faulkner warned of the writer who "labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lus...

1. Gil Brewer, A Killer Is Loose (1954) 2. Charles Williams, Hell Hath No Fury [a.k.a. The Hot Spot ] (1953) 3. Martin M. Goldsmith, Detou...

She was as beautiful as only a woman made for dirt can be. P. J. Wolfson Bodies Are Dust 1931

Part of the story of police inspector Buck Safiotte. I say part of the story because Bodies Are Dust does not have a neat plot of the begi...