Created by Simon Swift
It’s the thirties (and the forties and the fifties), and New York City gumshoe ERROL BLACK talks the talk and walks the expected walk, in a proposed trilogy of “indie” books by Simon Swift.
I say “proposed,” because the third book, the “much anticipated” The Gold Gate Goodbye, never surfaced, although a novella, Kiss Him Goodbye, which retold events in the first book from another perspective, was released in 2012.
And then… radio silence.
The author assured me at the time that his work has been compared to genre masters Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, of course, but he never quite specified where. The influence is obvious, but he also doesn’t mention if the comparisons were favorable or not.
My guess is “not,” given that words like “sloppy” and “poor editing” pop up far more often, even on Amazon.
NOVELS
- Black Shadows (2011) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- The Casablanca Case (2012) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- The Gold Gate Goodbye (unpublished)
NOVELLAS
- “Kiss Him Goodye” (2012) | Buy this book
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
