I’m working my way back to writing anything decent. In the mean time, I try and post something. I introduced you to this gem back in May. John D. MacDonald is the king of cheap paperbacks, as far as I’m concerned. I buy every book I see by MacDonald. Sometimes I forget I already had the book. There are worse ways to waste two dollars. Sometimes I find the duplicate is older (that is desirable—to me, at least), or in better condition. Sometimes it has a nicer, pulpier cover. I’ve got some real beauties.
I love MacDonald’s Travis McGee series, but A Key to the Suite is a standalone novel. Not a detective story. Not a mystery. Maybe a crime novel. Crimes are committed, certainly. But this isn’t a whodunit. It’s typical MacDonald—whether in series or out. It’s a hardboiled, frank look at a business convention and the self-aggrandizing schemers plotting against each other—and themselves. They all overreach, and no one ends up happy. That’s the kind of noir I like to sink my teeth into. link=
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