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The Client
High-flying LA attorney has a career threatening problem she hopes Malone can solve.
The Private Detective
PI Malone, the tough but fair knight errant of Los Angeles who saves lost souls by taking care of the bad guys.
The Sidekick
LAPD Lieutenant Jaime Reyes, Malone's former partner and best friend who tries to keep Malone on the ride side of things.
The Girlfriend
Malone's longtime girlfriend, refined psychiatrist Sara Bernstein who helps him with those pesky ethical dilemmas.
Interview with crime fiction Author Larry Darter.
How would you describe your Malone series?
In the Malone series, I write hard-boiled detective fiction in the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Hammett. We can define hard-boiled detective fiction in terms of what it is not. The setting is not in an English village. The detective rarely reaches a solution by analyzing clues. The genre exploits familiar urban and industrial settings. Its heroes and heroines are ordinary people, working alone. It entertains the reader with witty dialogue, the rise and fall of tension in a fight scene, and the technical details of how crimes get solved.
You set the books in the series in Los Angeles. Why?
Los Angeles is the seething capital of noir, a place where people come to get famous, to get rich, or to get away. Noir happens when they don’t find what they were looking for. It’s the aftermath when desperation sets in. That makes Los Angeles the perfect setting for hard-boiled fiction.
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