""A nonstop festival of double-crossing, triple-crossing, quick dialogue, cynical panache, and cheerfully violent action...Unusually clever and flavorsome. We want to hear what you think about this article. When he began writing, he put himself

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Ross Thomas was a master of fluid prose and even pacing. It won the Edgar Allen Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the best first novel of that year. apprenticeship, turning out dozens of short pieces for dime detective magazines i'll buy anything of Ross Thoams, still on sale? Chandler. "Very few...are as consistently entertaining...even fewer can match him for style and power."

I came to this book after watching Briarpatch, the television series. He made crime fiction a genre of moral consolation in twenty-five award-winning booksRoss Thomas, who died last winter at the age of sixty-nine, Ross Thomas -- the complete book list in order (22 books) (2 series).