Word: wambaugh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here, too, Wambaugh continues to me ander. He is unable to solve the problem of compressing seven dull years into a coherent, suspenseful story, possibly because he, and Actor Savage, cannot find a way to turn Hettinger into a sympathetic person, or even an articulate one. The Onion Field is a serious and most uncompromising movie. It lacks, however, the sort of disciplined craft that might have made it a powerful and affecting...
More than ever, to the benefit of their checkbooks and their readers, crime and mystery writers work at other professions. Britain's Don Rumbelow (The Complete Jack the Ripper) is a London bobby; Los Angeles Cop Joe Wambaugh only recently quit the force. In the tradition of Erie Stanley Gardner, many are lawyers, notably Harold Q. Masur (Bury Me Deep), Francis ("Mike") Nevins Jr. (Publish and Perish), Joe Hensley (A Killing in Gold), and, of course, Englishman Michael Gilbert, creator of the Patrick Petrella series and, be it noted, the author of Raymond Chandler's will. The remarkable...
...Black Marble, Wambaugh...
...Bloodline, Sheldon (1 last week) 2. The Thorn Birds, McCullough (3) 3. The Silmarillion, Tolkien (2) 4. Scruples, Krantz (7) 5. The Black Marble, Wambaugh (6) 6. The Honourable Schoolboy, Le Carré (4) 7. Illusions, Bach (8) 8. The Women's Room, French (5) 9. Rachel, The Rabbi's Wife, Tennenbaum 10. The Human Factor, Greene
...Black Marble, Wambaugh...