Folk in fiction: Such a Killing Crime

Subject: Folk in fiction: Such a Killing Crime
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 11:26 AM

This ad in Sing Out! looks interesting:

Such A Killing Crime, A folk noir mystery featuring Joe Talley, by Robert Lopresti.

Greenwich Village 1963: Hootenannies are all the rage, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez are young fresh faces, and a gifted folk singer has just been murdered in Joe Talley's club, The Riding Beggar.

Tom Paxton is quoted as saying, "Spooky. If I'd known he was watching us all so carefully, I'd have behaved much better."

From Kearney Street Books, in Bellingham, Washington ("publishing books by or about music or musicians").

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Folk in fiction: Such a Killing Crime
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 11:49 AM

Well having read the first chapter excerpt and noted the typos etc, literature it ain't!

Subject: RE: Folk in fiction: Such a Killing Crime
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 12:36 PM

Well, there's lots of readable stuff that ain't Literature (especially in the mystery genre...).

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Folk in fiction: Such a Killing Crime
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 02:02 PM

okay then, literate it ain't. Sorry but it's poor writing.