Dave Zeltserman's Reading Interests
Influences
I always read a lot as a kid, everything from the classics to pulp and science fiction. When I was 15 I picked up a dog-eared copy of Mickey Spillane's "I, the Jury" that hooked me on crime fiction. From Spillane I quickly exhausted the works of Hammett, Stout, Chandler, Ross Macdonald, and many other crime fiction writers, including Dan Marlowe, Jim Thompson and Charles Willeford.
About Dave
Dave Zeltserman’s short crime fiction has been published in many venues, including Alfred Hitchcock's and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazines. His first novel, Fast Lane, received widespread praise, with Ken Bruen calling it ‘the most entertaining debut since...