{"id":3453,"date":"2006-11-28T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2017-12-12T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T21:45:14","slug":"book-report-sons-of-sam-spade-the-private-eye-novel-in-the-70s-by-david-geherin-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/book-report-sons-of-sam-spade-the-private-eye-novel-in-the-70s-by-david-geherin-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Sons of Sam Spade: The Private Eye Novel in the 70s by David Geherin (1980)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In February, I read Geherin’s The American Private Eye: The Image in Fiction<\/a><\/i>, and I mentioned having read Sons of Sam Spade<\/i> in college. Sometime this summer, I found an ex-library copy at a bok fair, so I picked it up for a re-read. In the intervening fifteen years since I first read this book, Robert B. Parker has put out a number of books, including non-series novels and two new non-Spenser series, that really don’t live up to the promise of his beginning four. I’ve also read several of the Roger L. Simon Moses Wine novels (The Lost Coast<\/i><\/a>, California Roll<\/a><\/i>, The Big Fix<\/i><\/a>, and Peking Duck<\/i><\/a>) and they probably live up to my preconception of them.<\/p>\n

I haven’t read anything by the third author covered, Andrew Bergman, but his work sounds interesting enough to look for when book fair season begins next summer.<\/p>\n

The content of Sons of Sam Spade<\/i>, like The American Private Eye<\/i>, offer a nice summary of some of the late entrants (at the time) into the genre and makes a good, short respite from actually reading the genre. It’s literary criticism, sort of, and I can enjoy it.<\/p>\n

Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n