Pseudonyms include Lesley Andress, Mark Upton (1920-98) In his time, LAWRENCE SANDERS ranked right up there in popularity with Stephen King, Danielle Steele and only a handful of other newsstand, airport and bus station superstars, so much so that his name was more prominent on the covers of his books than their titles, and this … Continue reading Lawrence Sanders
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Sara Paretsky
(1947--) One of the best and consistently interesting of the hard-boiled private eyes to burst out of the early eighties female detective boom--and certainly the inspiration for so many more of them — was SARA PARETSKY's hard-nosed Chicago P.I. V.I. Warshawski. But if V.I. was an inspiration for those who followed, the same could be … Continue reading Sara Paretsky
Peter Cheyney
Pseudonym of Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney (1896-1951) Peter Cheyney was--and so far remains--Britain's leading writer of hard-boiled fiction. He created three memorable characters: Lemmy Caution, a ruthless machine-gun toting FBI agent; Slim Callaghan, a British private eye... and himself. According to his friend and fellow writer Dennis Wheatley "he was the greatest liar unhung … Continue reading Peter Cheyney