Hector Lassiter | Hector Lassiter
Sep.14.2008
You can make a good case for Ernest Hemingway having left a profound mark on hardboiled crime fiction.
Graduate students and crime fiction aficionados have murdered trees arguing whether Hemingway influenced Dashiell Hammett or whether inspiration ran the other direction.
Raymond Chandler...
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Sep.06.2008
A portion of Toros & Torsos takes place in Spain early in 1937 as Hector Lassiter joins Ernest Hemingway and novelist John Dos Passos in Madrid during the early days of the Spanish Civil War.
In T&T, Hector has gone to Spain as a favor to Pauline Hemingway — agreeing to watch over a...
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Aug.30.2008
In the first Hector Lassiter novel, Head Games, Hector visited his old friend Orson Welles on the set of Welles’ noir classic Touch of Evil. It was noted in Head Games (set in 1957) that Hector owed Orson a favor connected to something that happened between them ten years earlier.
Toros &...
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Aug.22.2008
The Hector Lassiter series is all about secret history — a blending of fact and fiction that aims to get at something like the hidden truth.
Toros & Torsos (aka, Hector Lassiter #2), spins on the premise that surrealist art and theory may have informed or inspired several bloody, unsolved...
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Aug.17.2008
The coming Labor Day weekend marks the 73rd anniversary of the Great Florida Keys Storm of 1935 — still the most powerful hurricane to strike the United States. At this writing, another hurricane is threatening the Keys — a tropical storm named Fay.
The ’35 hurricane occurred at a time before...
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