Hanging out with Higgins
Michael Wood, 7 December 1989
Silent Partner
by Jonathan Kellerman.
Macdonald, 506 pp., £11.95, September 1989,0 356 17598 7 Show More
by Jonathan Kellerman.
Macdonald, 506 pp., £11.95, September 1989,
‘Murder will out’: The Detective in Fiction
by T.J. Binyon.
Oxford, 166 pp., £12.95, June 1989,9780192192233 Show More
by T.J. Binyon.
Oxford, 166 pp., £12.95, June 1989,
Polar Star
by Martin Cruz Smith.
Collins Harvill, 373 pp., £12.95, October 1989,0 00 271269 5 Show More
by Martin Cruz Smith.
Collins Harvill, 373 pp., £12.95, October 1989,
“... flashbacks over forty years, strange doings between psychiatrists and patients. It is as if Ross Macdonald or Raymond Chandler had gone Gothic, while the principal movement of the fiction remained the same: California tilted into American allegory, skeletons in every designer closet, the glossy present built over a dark and denied past, a handsome house ... ”