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Dateline: Robert Carraher
Weblog: the-dirty-lowdown.blogspot.com/
Articles: 78
Dateline: Robert Carraher
Weblog: the-dirty-lowdown.blogspot.com/
Articles: 78
I was born in Pomona, California at a very young age. I had a pretty normal childhood…or I was a pretty normal child hood if mom is telling the story. I was a paperboy and washed cars, I bussed tables, I was a soda fountain jock jerk and a manic mechanic, but my first real job was as a labor organizer in a maternity ward. Then, because of the misjudgment of a judge I spent nearly 10 years in the service of our country mostly on KP duty, our country sure turns out a lot of dirty dishes. I was a master at pots and pans. Uncle Sam eventually recognized my real talent and let me wander around some very unfriendly places carrying a big radio that didn’t work.
Along the way I took up the bass guitar, jotting down stories and electronic engineering. I spent most of my adult life, if you can call it that, working in the I.T. industry, which I was particularly suited for since we worked in rooms with no windows. On and off I taught in colleges, universities and reform schools as a student teacher…
I like smog, traffic, kinky people, car trouble, noisy neighbors, and crowded seedy bars where I have been known to quote Raymond Chandler as pickup lines. I have always been a voracious reader, everything from the classics, to popular fiction, history to science but I have a special place in my heart for crime fiction, especially hard-boiled detective fiction and noir. I write a book and music review blog for all genres at The Dirty Lowdown. And another dedicated to Crime Fiction and all-things Noir called Crimeways. It’s named after the magazine that appeared in the Kenneth Fearing classic, "The Big Clock". There I write scholarly reviews of the classic hard boiled, noir and crime fiction books from the 20's through today. Mostly I like the salacious pictures on the covers.
Robert Carraher
Portland, OR
the.dirty.lowdown@gmail.com
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A thrilling race through a monsoon to kill or be killed.
In DHS troubleshooter Derek Stillwater's relentless pursuit of the killers of his lover, and a quest to meet his son, no one stands a chance.
A darkly humorous slapstick caper, hardboiled and clean as a whistle.
America has enemies, some foreign, some domestic, and Will Robie will see them all dead - except the innocent.
Wise cracking PI Dev Haskell has just landed his dream job, providing security for people who don't need it in the first place.
Sex, crime and whackiness in dark and cynical humor. Los Angles in all it's ravaged beauty
A romantic thrill as cracked as the stucco walls of a cheap Mexican motel, a female John MacDonald.
McCoy’s hardboiled noir classic, about an Ivy League graduate’s criminal rampage from seedy underground to glitzy high society.
Desperate young men and women compete in a multi-day, dance-till-you-drop spectacle in this classic noir novel.
Explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires.
