Il mio angelo ha le ali nere

Goodreads friend William Donelson boldly asserts this isn’t a novel to be read; this is a novel to be felt and a novel to be lived. After my own experience with Elliott Chaze's noir black angel, feeling its dramatic intensity and living through every single page with narrator Tim Sunblade and his be Leggi tutto

Those who abide in the noir world are meaner and greedier and their thoughts are always blacker and even the angels there fly on the black wings. This is the angel… The brown speckles in the lavender-gray eyes, floating very close to the surface when I kissed her, the eyes wide open and aware. But not Leggi tutto

”I came back and searched dizzily under the trailer, muttering the way drunks do, and then I heard it. A shuffling around inside the trailer. The little tramp had knocked me in the head with her Southern Comfort and now she was in there loading up…. I saw the light inside the armored car, glowing in Leggi tutto

Black Wings Has My Angel was originally published in 1953 as a Gold Medal mass-market paperback, one of the hundreds of pulpish novels aimed at male readers that filled paperback book racks in drugstores and other such places all over the country in the Fifties. For whatever reason, though, and unli Leggi tutto

“If you’ve got the money, I’ve got the time”—Lefty Frizzell song Timothy/Kenneth and Virginia/Jennie sing This is a deliciously wicked (and I guess recently rediscovered or re-appreciated) noir story published in 1953 from a guy I had never heard of about a vet just escaped from prison who picks up a Leggi tutto