THE LONE WOLF by "Mike Barry" (Barry N. Malzberg). I'm not really cheating, am I?, because I really do consider this to be a single fourteen-volume novel.
Indeed, Malzberg's (not atypical project of) packaging a post-modevn cycle as a typical Men's Adventure series of the criminous type, as the protagonist goes increasingly insane volume by volume. Dostoevsky's THE LACERATOR #s1-14.
So sorry. Been there and done that. I remain terrified that it can happen again as a few years ago it got us. My adult son, Scott, was going so much that he had a seizure and spent several days in the hospital while they tried to figure out what had happened and to address it and other issues.
Kate Wilhelm's DEATH QUALIFIED (down to the multiple implications of the title) might nudge even THE MALTESE FALCON and PSYCHO (where every surviving character knows who the killer is by 3/4 of the novel's narrative, and the rest is How to deal with that fact) and AND THEN THERE WERE NONE for me at the moment. (Bloch's NIGHT WORLD is underappreciated.)
I thought I might have read this one but if so I don't have any record of it. I have read most of the Inspector Wexford series and a couple of the Karen Pirie books, but I could not read the Tony Hill series.
Hope you are feeling better. Can't narrow down to one, probably the one I am reading at the time. Thanks for the suggestion, will check it out. Love this blog.
THE LONE WOLF by "Mike Barry" (Barry N. Malzberg). I'm not really cheating, am I?, because I really do consider this to be a single fourteen-volume novel.
ReplyDeleteP.S., Val McDermid can do no wrong.
Indeed, Malzberg's (not atypical project of) packaging a post-modevn cycle as a typical Men's Adventure series of the criminous type, as the protagonist goes increasingly insane volume by volume. Dostoevsky's THE LACERATOR #s1-14.
DeleteGlad you enjoyed the novel, Patti, and I hope you feel better soon.
ReplyDeleteVery much likewise. Hope the novel has helped enormously.
DeleteFeel better.
ReplyDeleteWe agree on this one, one of the best mysteries I've ever read.
Her others are not bad either. A master plotter. Good way to celebrate the Edgars.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry. Been there and done that. I remain terrified that it can happen again as a few years ago it got us. My adult son, Scott, was going so much that he had a seizure and spent several days in the hospital while they tried to figure out what had happened and to address it and other issues.
ReplyDeleteSo have I, Kevin. I think it is subsiding. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteKate Wilhelm's DEATH QUALIFIED (down to the multiple implications of the title) might nudge even THE MALTESE FALCON and PSYCHO (where every surviving character knows who the killer is by 3/4 of the novel's narrative, and the rest is How to deal with that fact) and AND THEN THERE WERE NONE for me at the moment. (Bloch's NIGHT WORLD is underappreciated.)
ReplyDeleteTrue about PSYCHO. Good ones.
ReplyDeleteI thought I might have read this one but if so I don't have any record of it. I have read most of the Inspector Wexford series and a couple of the Karen Pirie books, but I could not read the Tony Hill series.
ReplyDeleteHope you are feeling better. Can't narrow down to one, probably the one I am reading at the time. Thanks for the suggestion, will check it out. Love this blog.
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