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A Wasteland of Strangers by Bill Pronzini
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Bill Pronzini is the author of the series featuring the Nameless Detective.
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A Wasteland of Strangers by Bill Pronzini
Features
Paperback:
257 pages
; Dimensions (in inches): 0.79 x 7.74 x 5.00
Publisher: Walker & Co; (June 1999)
ISBN:
0802775608
Amazon.com
Here's a fine modern mystery that would have made a wonderful 1950s B movie. Robert Mitchum would have been perfect as the hulking stranger John Faith, who arrives one day in the faded Northern California resort town of Pomo with a mysterious agenda. Who but Paul Douglas could have played the tough but fair-minded police chief? And the part of Storm Carey, the gorgeous widow feeding her grief with rampant sex, would have been a natural for Jan Sterling or Elisabeth Scott. Bill Pronzini both uses and overcomes these film noir images as he skips from voice to voice to tell a tricky, compelling story. Other books by this excellent writer include Blue Lonesome and--from his Nameless Detective series-- Hardcover edition.
Reader Reviews
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Clothes make the Man, November 19, 1997
Reviewer:
An Amazon.com Customer
So very inventive and wonderfully written. The author manages to present each character in three dimensions and true to form. This is a modern vesion of Gottfried Keller's "Clothes Make the Man", showing how outer appearances can create strong prejudice. And, sad to say, conformity is still a must in today's culture. In some European countries, police even set up a raster of neighborhoods, according to the motto: "You don't wear jeans, you are suspect". Big Brother is prejudiced.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition
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