![]() ![]() ![]() Now added to that list is Mike Ripley’s Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (the title taken from a dismissive remark by Ian Fleming about his own work) a work which wisely narrows its focus to the Golden Age of the modern British Men’s thriller, roughly 1950 to 1980. Ellery Queen’s Queen’s Quorum Richard Usborne’s The Clubland Heroes, about the between the war works of Buchan, Yates, Sapper McNeile Julian Symons’ first critical study of the genre Ron Goulart’s essays in the anthology The Hard-Boiled Dicks Kingsley Amis’s A James Bond Dossier Barzun and Taylor’s A Catalog of Crime the oft quoted, in these pages, 1001 Midnights by Pronzini and Mueller et al - these are just a few examples. We can all name texts in the broad genre covered on this blog that were like that going back to ur-texts like Howard Haycraft’s Murder for Pleasure and Vincent Starrett’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. ![]() ![]() Just as there are novels that appear that seemingly had to be written, and characters whose time has come to emerge, there are books about books, even in the genres, that appear and the proper reaction to them is why wasn’t this book always here? MIKE RIPLEY – Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: The Boom in British Thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed. ![]()
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