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Welcome to The (New) Thrilling Detective Web Site.
If you poke around, you’ll notice we’re still in the process of moving from our old location. It’s a seemingly endless but surprisingly enjoyable task, as I cut-and-paste away, dashing through the day and merrily revamping and revising and updating and even, occasionally, changing my opinion. And oh what fun! it is to correct errors and embarrassing typos that have lingered for years and even decades–and replace them with brand-new errors and embarrassing typos!
This is going to be a long hard slog, as I try to modernize and update a site with over 3500 pages, so strap your hands cross my engines (or something). By the time it’s done, it should be all kinds of easier to use. And hopefully more fun than a barrel of monks (or something).
So please be patient, and if anyone has comments, suggestions, words of encouragement, talk to me.
Got something in a private eye vein I should know about? Tell me!
Got something to show me? I can’t post if I don’t know…
You can email me or tweet me, or maybe even Facebook me. Or use the comments section at the bottom of every page.
But I should remind you that I’m a man who likes to talk to a man who likes to talk
You can also become a Friend of the Site. I’m easy–just slip me a few bucks via PayPal for beer money.
And for those who’d like to send me review copies (or bundles of unmarked bills, preferably tens and twenties), my snail mail is:
Kevin Burton Smith
The Thrilling Detective Web Site
3053 Rancho Vista Blvd, Apt. 116
Palmdale, CA 93551
USA
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Looks good
Looks good. Hope you don’t mind if I tweet it’s location.
That should be “its,” not “it’s”; been hanging around Facebook too much.
Rock solid.
Glad to have you back. Looking forward to following the site.
Back? I didn’t know I’d been away…
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I like it.
Glad I came upon your site via noirish Chandler post.Like your line “I’m a man who likes to talk to a man who likes to talk.” Your line or from a movie? I’m an intellectual vagrant whose train of thought often takes the scenic route. 1st half is mine 2nd was said about the late N.Y.Times writer Johnny Apple.
Hah! Not my line, but I steal from the best. It’s Caspar Gutman speaking to Sam Spade in THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett.
Good one
Thank you so much for this website. I’ve always loved mysteries, but I found I really love the hard-boiled gumshoes. This is a great reference to learn about the authors and characters.
I’m new to your site. When you post the link “Buy this book,” next to a title is that also your personal recommendation based on the quality of that particular novel or just a convenience you’re extending to anyone who doesn’t know how to get to the Amazon website?
I’d love to say it was both, but honestly? It’s to push people towards Amazon. If someone buys a book (or a movie or whatever) through one of my links, I get a few pennies, which I can then plough back into server space, domain registration and, if I’m really lucky, a beer now and then. It doesn’t cost readers anything, but those few cents can mean a lot to me.
As for my recommendations, while most of the entries are NOT reviews, per se, it’s usually pretty easy to suss out how I feel about a certain character or writer.
Looks good. Thank you so much for this website.
Am I still here? I was, once.
If you’re not, you will be, Rick. The transfer continues, moving along at roughly the same pace as the Continental Drift…
There can never be enough about Joe Hallenbeck.
Looks good. I wish you good luck
The new site looks swell! Just the thing to browse through while curled up with an ice-cold Pabst Blue Ribbon!
Just stumbled onto your web site. What a gem. I love the Detective Noir genre and your web site is an amazing tribute. Just wanted to thank you for putting this all together and to let you know that it’s great to see how passionate you are about Detective Fiction. Your handwork in creating this extremely informative and entertaining web site is greatly appreciated.
Hey, Kevin… I owe you a beer. You and Victoria published one of my first stories back in the day, September 2000 as I recall (you called it The Desperate Minutes which I loved), but now I have a series or two out under a new name (Brian Drake because bloody hell even I have trouble pronouncing my own name sometimes) and it’s all your fault. Or something. Anyway one of these days I’ll get you that beer! Please give my best to Victoria.
Ooh! A beer! You’re a man after my own heart, if not my liver.
Came across your site via a mention in the Mystery File website. I’m hooked.
Great site. Not sure how I got to it, but glad to be here. Oh, I remember now. I must have been Googling Ross Macdonald.
I love the new digs kid. It’s aces.
OH NO! Proof reading is not someone’s forte on this site. “We’re now officially became twenty-two years old” should We’ve now officially became…or We have now officially became (become would be more appropriate)
Darn, you’re right.
Great website! I appreciate your hard work.