Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Black Wings Has My Angel: A Perfect Crime Novel

Black Wings Has My Angel: A Perfect Crime Novel  

Hat tip to Fred Zackel.

9 comments:

Deb said...

Darn--Fred beat me to it! I was just about to paste that link.

IMHO, BLACK WINGS HAS MY ANGEL is one of the best and bleakest of the noirs.

Unknown said...

Read this umpty-ump years ago and thought it was pretty good, but no better than a lot of others Gold Medal was putting out in those days.. which, come to think of it, is high praise.

mybillcrider said...

I read this nearly 50 years ago and thought at the time it was a cut above. I even wrote that in a fanzine article around 1960 or 1970.

Bill Pronzini said...

Chaze is a long-time favorite of mine. I wrote a piece on BLACK WINGS for the anthology BOOKS TO DIE FOR, as well as a short essay on the man and his body of work for Mystery*File. A link to the latter for anyone interested who hasn't seen it: http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=142

mybillcrider said...

Good stuff, Bill. Thanks for the link.

Scott Cupp said...

I read this recently and really loved it.

mybillcrider said...

Glad you liked it, Scott.

Prashant C. Trikannad said...

Bill, thanks for the link. I have never read Elliott Chase before and the review was interesting.

mybillcrider said...

This book is a stone classic, Prashant. Trust me.