Naked Betrayal
Category: Detective
No Shit, Sherlock
Hack penned this while alternately bingeing episodes of the BBC Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett, Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone while playing the storm sequence from Back to the Future on YouTube on a loop in the background, all while guzzling Jack Daniels. He doesn’t remember writing a word of it but he woke up in a pool of his own tears and vomit with the manuscript in a neat pile next to his typewriter.
Silk Stockings
Happy Nylon Stockings Day! (Yes, we know the title of the book is Silk Stockings. Hack was supposed to title it Nylon Stockings in honor of the holiday but he changed it because – as he put it – “You’ll see silk stockings draped over an armoire in a Parisian cathouse, while you’ll find nylon stockings hiding the vericose veins of a late-middle aged paralegal at a stockholders meeting.” We saw his point.)
The Hangman’s Noose
Implausibility on the Orient Express
Kolchak: the Day Sleeper
Hack’s alcohol addled brain stopped storing cultural references in the late-1970s, which explains this novelization of the 1974 cult TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker starring Darren McGavin which Hack claims came to him in a dream when he drank himself unconscious in a bar that was showing MSNBC’s coverage of the Trump trial on TV.
The Vanilla Pug
The Perilous Apparel
Hack lives in Los Angeles and he couldn’t help but notice that the detective stories that he loves from the 1940s set in the City of Angels always have the hero dressed in heavy layers when the temperature in inevitably between 90-110°.
The Tell-Tale Tramp Stamp
The Case of the Accused Scoundrel
