And now for the published novel, Quarry’s Reunion, the 50th anniversary Quarry no less, we offer this book giveaway. We have copies for the first ten of you who write me at macphilms@hotmail.com and request one. You agree to post (if you enjoyed the book) a review for Amazon and/or Barnes & Noble, and/or Goodreads (or similar sites). American entries only (postage elsewhere is prohibitive). A must: include your snail mail address.

This is our second book giveaway for this title – the first dealt with Advanced Reading Copies and this one is the actual book. The little differences between the ARC and the actual book, as physical objects, are a few typos corrected.

The Quarry movie, The Last Lullaby (2008), is coming soon from Kino-Lorber on Blu-ray. Heath Holland of Cereal at Midnight, Jeffrey Goodman the film’s director, and I got together for an interview (Heath asking the questions) that will serve as the commentary for the Blu-ray. The session went very well. It’s a good one, I think.

Kino-Lorber has been great. They allowed me to contribute to the description of the film on the back of the (slipcased) disc. The details for this jam-packed Blu-ray (and how to preorder it) are at this link.

This is a wonderful array of noir detectives, albeit not perfect (no Mickey Spillane as Mike Hammer, for example), but still a sheer pleasure to behold. Glad to see Biff Eliott acknowledged!

Discussions of classic detectives like Mike Hammer and Phillip Marlowe often omit a screen or TV portrayal or two. Among Hammers, Brian Keith, Armand Assante and Rob Estes (the latter rightfully) frequently get forgotten. Sometimes people aren’t aware of Gary Sandy in my Encore for Murder, who really was terrific.

Marlowe has forgotten portrayals to spare. George Montgomery’s bland Marlowe in The Brasher Doubloon (1947) skips a lot of people’s minds. An appropriate Philip Carey starred in the 1959–1960 ABC television series Philip Marlowe. The great Powers Boothe was Marlowe in the HBO/ITV neo-noir series Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986); Danny Glover in a 1995 episode of the anthology series Fallen Angels; James Caan in the 1998 HBO movie adaptation Poodle Springs; and Zachary Scott on Robert Montgomery Presents – ironic since Robert Montgomery played Marlowe in Lady in the Lake.

Worst of all (though he coulda been a contender) was Liam Neeson in the abysmal Marlowe (2023).

Here is a nice review of Mickey’s last completed novel, The Last Stand.

It does not mention the novella included in the book: A Bullet for Satisfaction, begun by Mickey and completed by me…and the basis of the indie film I wrote not long ago, Cap City. It has a distributor and I’ll pass along news as I get it.

Antiques Web is available now! The latest Brandy and Vivian Borne mystery (from Barbara Allan, aka Barb and me) is from Sevren House, our publisher who is located in the UK. This makes finding us in a brick-and-mortar outlet stateside hit or miss (although we’re told that situation will soon improve). For now your best bet is Amazon, where it’s available in hardcover and on Kindle.

Reviews have been so good Vivian hasn’t had to lie about them.

M.A.C.

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