Welcome to Litsy!

I'm this volume, we circle back around to Tracy Lawless and his commitment to Hyde. Hyde tasks him with using his brains instead of his brawn to find out who has been killing made men. Tracy isn't know for his brains, though, and in this town, everyone just stumbles through trying not to get killed. That doesn't work out for everyone.

#Chill 🥶💙

#ARichLife 🤎🍂🧦🧸📜☕️

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

My current co-worker

I've read a couple of Hard Case Crime books recently (including a lost novel by James Cain!);and the tagged book, from the author of the source material of Hitchcock's masterpiece, is most likely going to end up on my best of the year list. An existential, intriguing, crime story that had me hooked from the first page! I currently have 3 Hard Case books checked out that look very reliable, including one with a Tarantino blurb. Will update!

Packs quite a punch for such a short novel (115 pages). I really want to rewatch the movie now - the Fred MacMurray version. I've never seen the remake.

But can someone explain to me why the characters' names were changed for the movie? From Walter Huff to Walter Neff, and from Phyllis Nirdlinger to Phyllis Dietrichson. At least the first names weren't changed.

Finally have some time for reading & I‘m making up for a slow few weeks/months😬…Anyway, Byrd is back in Hawaii with another mystery to solve—this time two casino operators are fighting &, perhaps, sabotaging each other…unless someone else is actually to blame. Gotta love a hard-boiled detective mystery in a comic book set in Hawaii. The art is solid—not my fav—& the colors are fantastic. Story is appropriately convoluted with some good reveals.

A recovering, low-level low life is at the wrong place at the wrong time, and is pulled into a web of trouble. An extra layer of story and art on display as the main character is also writes a comic strip, and his creation enters the world through his mind.

"I puffed at the cigarette. It was one of those things with filters in them. It tasted like a high fog strained through cotton wool."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

#fog. #HauntsandHexes

@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Reading this for HRCYED subgenres prompt and I'm not sure I can weather the sexist writing to enjoy the story.

"She was a blonde woman of a few more years than thirty. Her facial prettiness was perhaps five years past its best moment."

Feminist rage piqued.