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Like all of you, Hack’s favorite holiday is National Avocado Day which takes place today. As part of the celebration, he wrote this thriller where the mob tries to do in Jonny and Boris by feeding them poisoned avocado. It’s destined to become a holiday classic.
Happy International Day of Friendship!
Happy heavenly birthday to William Powell.
This book is a sequel to The Thin Man’s Wife but since Nick Charles was murdered at the end of that novel, Hack began this one with the classic writers cop-out that the previous story was all a dream. This is one of Hack’s most carefully researched novels since he used his own extensive personal experience with alcohol-related impotence in writing it. The result is a book that is honestly pretty uncomfortable to read, although the many anal sex scenes between Detective Jonny and Nora Charles are diverting.
Hack’s back and Agnes has got him!
This was inspired by an incident when a famous actress was depicted as a character on the cover art of one of Hack’s novels. A reader was furious because he considered the actress to be his personal masturbatorial intellectual property and threatened Hack with violence if he so much as thought about her again.
The reader was apprehended by authorities and is now safely confined to Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane.
Hack wrote this for something called Perfect Family Day, which apparently is today. But since all of his own family experiences were brutal and psychologically twisted, he wrote this book that essentially polishes off the entire institution of family. He said it was cathartic to write.
Happy heavenly birthday to the great Barbara Stanwyck!
Ms. Stanwyck’s most famous film, Double Indemnity, has an immortal scene where the insurance inspector played by Edward G. Robinson shows up at her lover Fred MacMurray’s apartment so she has to hide behind his door to avoid Robinson seeing them together.It’s a great tense scene except that no building code in the world (then or now) allows a door to open out into a hallway like that. If it did, you would flatten anyone in the face who knocked on it.
That scene irritates Hack so much that he wrote a whole novel inspired by it.
