![]() In Mas’ case, it also gave him the knowledge & connections to solve quite a few crimes.” - BK that not many people knew: the world of older Japanese gardeners who made this city beautiful for years. “Her debut introduced Mas Arai,” writes Katie Orphan, “and with him a part of L.A. It all began with this series opener featuring an amateur sleuth who survived the annihilation of Hiroshima. Hirahara’s cozy-ish mysteries are a Trojan horse from which hidden histories come pouring out - in particular the long story of Japanese assimilation and alienation in the U.S. ![]() Summer of the Big Bachi by Naomi Hirahara, 2004 But when did they write a murder story that doubles as both an academic satire and a tragic indictment of anti-immigrant prejudice? - DK Yes, Hammett and Chandler got there first. Some prefer Macdonald’s perverse, Edgar-winning mystery “The Chill” - without whose example “Chinatown” is hard to imagine - but more votes went to this other gem, the author’s own favorite among his many books about private eye Lew Archer. “It was as if he used ink when so many writers use pencil.” Opinions vary, but trust me: This is Chandler’s greatest hit. “Who can write a sentence as sharp or create a mood as cleanly as Chandler?” wonders Maria Hummel. Marlowe has grown older and more vulnerable, which makes “ The Long Goodbye” a precursor to the novels of contemporary writers such as Walter Mosley and Michael Connelly, whose characters age and develop from book to book. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler, 1953Ĭhandler’s last great novel is not only a piece of crime writing it is also an ambitious work of social fiction, with some autobiographical threads.
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