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Hardboiled stand-alones?
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Most Prolific Crime Author
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a crime of taste
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There are 30 western titles included in that number.
Creasey wrote westerns as well as crime novels. Are those included in that total?
Has anyone mentioned Georges Simenon? Apparently knocked out 60-80 pages a day, resulting in 200 novels and 150 novellas. He was also a sex addict and somehow squeezed in encounters with 10,000 women between scribbling – though this is likely to b...
Holy moly! Talk about slave wages!
You also might want to take a look at this piece on Australian pulp author Carter Brown (British-born Alan Geoffrey Yates - 1923-1985) with claimed sales of 80 million books worldwide.
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5000678/The-mysteriou...
The first one that came to mind for me was Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly.
I have no idea. The numbers are staggering, that's for sure. But John's post below about Inoue is even more unreal.
I know you're only asking about crime authors, but this is too impressive not to mention. Ryoki Inoue holds the Guiness Record for most prolific novelist with 1,075 novels. Oh yeah, and he's still alive, writing.
http://www.ryoki.com.br/guinnesbo...
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- At 9:42pm on January 18, 2008,
helen black said… - Hi DENIS.
What sort of writing do you do?
HB
- At 6:33am on December 17, 2007,
Rick Mofina said…
- welcome aboard
- At 7:25am on December 11, 2007,
Douglas Quinn said… - Hi Denis: I'm a huge fan of Kathy Reichs. Love Bare Bones. Her new novel is out and I hope to get it and find time to read it soon. Have you tried James Lee Burke? He's my writing muse. I write mystery and suspense novels.
Best,
Douglas Quinn
www.douglasquinn.com
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- Hometown:
- Logan City, (South of Brisbane) Australia.
- About Me:
- I am in my mid 40s and have recently returned to my birthplace in Australia, having lived in Ireland for many years. My first published short story
Cold Comfort was published online on the Australian Crime Fiction Database. Comments and reviews would be most welcome.
Although I am only now writing crime fiction, I also have finished an unpublished thriller set in Africa.
- I Am A:
- Reader, Writer
- Books And Authors I Like:
- I like most crime fiction, and especially like the older novels by authors like Raymond Chandler, Rex Stout, and Erle Stanley Gardner. (Unusually for someone who likes these types of writers, I do not like Dashiell Hammett).
Modern novelists I like are Robert Crais, Michael Connelly and James Patterson. Not limiting myself to male authors, I have just finished Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs and enjoyed it very much.
Non fiction is usually aviation related, or historical.
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- I don't have a lot of time to watch TV, but it would normally be crime dramas such as "Law and Order", any courtroom drama, or CSI.
Of non-fiction, I like documentaries showing forensics and police procedures.
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