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4.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable pulp fiction from the Forties,
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This review is from: At the Stroke of Midnight (Paperback)
The stories in At the Stroke of Midnight feature Steve Midnight, a cab-driver working in the LA suburbs in the early 1940s who is constantly getting caught between criminals and the law. In just about every story he has to play private detective to get himself out of trouble with the crooks and the cops. Writer John K. Butler, who went on to a career writing screenplays for Republic Pictures and early television, was an adept plotter, pretty good at characterization and atmosphere. The stories are violent -- Midnight gets concussed so often he ought to wear a football helmet instead of his cabby cap -- but that is par for the course in pulp detective fiction of that era. I read the Steve Midnight stories one after another and enjoyed them all, although none of them stood out as particularly memorable. Unfortunately, the Midnight stories kept bringing to mind the work of Raymond Chandler, who was writing his detective fiction during the same period and in the same milieu. Chandler was a great writer; Butler was merely a good one.
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At the Stroke of Midnight by John Wooley (Paperback - October 1, 1998)
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