AUTHOR FAVOURITES: GOSHEN HOLE by WAYNE D. DUNDEE

You can’t pigeon-hole Wayne D. Dundee! He writes westerns (winning a Peacemaker award), mysteries (nominated for numerous awards), crime novels, a novel about vampires, a boxing-meets-the-underworld novel…

Many of his books feature PI Joe Hannibal. Wayne tells me he likes GOSHEN HOLE, because it essentially re-invented the character when he re-located from Illinois to Nebraska.

Joe investigates the disappearance of a friends’ ex-wife with the help of William Thunderbringer, mercenary turned bounty hunter; they clash with a drug-dealer aptly named Matanza, `The Bloodletter'.

A PI (or cop) with a Native American sidekick reminded me of the 1992 film THUNDERHEART,

Val Kilmer and Graham Greene in ‘Thunderheart’ (1992)

or Burt Reynold’s 1966 TV series ‘HAWK.’

Reviews of GOSHEN HOLE:

‘One of the very best of the Joe Hannibal novels… a no-nonsense full-tilt-boogie romp.’

‘Dundee hits all the high points of a good PI novel, fuelling the mystery with testosterone and gunfire.’

‘Plenty of action, good dialogue and just enough humour to sweeten the pot.’

https://www.amazon.com/Goshen-Hole-Joe-Hannibal-Mystery/dp/1479189421/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

AUTHOR FAVOURITES: AND FLESH AND BLOOD SO CHEAP by WAYNE D. DUNDEE

You can’t pigeon-hole Wayne D. Dundee! He writes westerns (winning a Peacemaker award), mysteries (nominated for numerous awards), crime novels, a novel about vampires, a boxing-meets-the-underworld novel…

Many of his books feature P. I. JOE HANNIBAL. Wayne tells me AND FLESH AND BLOOD SO CHEAP is probably his favourite Hannibal novel: ‘It came closest to getting down exactly what I set out to do.’

When Joe investigates a murder in a small Wisconsin summer resort, he encounters the hostile-community-hiding-a-guilty-secret syndrome of BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK.

Robert Ryan, Spencer Tracy and (definitely having a bad day) Ernest Borgnine in ‘Bad Day at Black Rock’ (1954)

Wayne acknowledges a debt to Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, but the lakeside resort location reminded me of my favourite Raymond Chandler novel THE LADY IN THE LAKE.

Cloris Leachman and Ralph Meeker (as Mike Hammer) in ‘Kiss Me Deadly’ (1955)

Mickey Spillane

Robert Montgomery as P. I. Philip Marlowe in ‘Lady in the Lake’ (1946)

Raymond Chandler

Reviews of AND FLESH AND BLOOD SO CHEAP:

‘This is Joe Hannibal at his best. Prime crime fiction.’

‘Superb.’

‘The Hannibal tales have a sort of wild, rough energy and two-fisted swagger to them that just hits the spot.’

https://www.amazon.com/Flesh-Blood-So-Cheap-Mysteries/dp/1891946161 and https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flesh-Blood-Cheap-Hannibal-Mysteries/dp/1891946161/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1543651242&sr=8-1&keywords=and+flesh+and+blood+so+cheap+wayne+d.+dundee