1st Edition

Violent Sidekicks in American Crime Fiction Series Hawk, Clete, Pike, Mouse, Bubba, Win

By Terry Keefe Copyright 2027
232 Pages
by Routledge

Violent Sidekicks in American Crime Fiction Series: Hawk, Clete, Pike, Mouse, Bubba, Win  examines six violent sidekicks in contemporary American novels authored by Robert Parker, James Lee Burke, Robert Crais, Walter Mosley, Dennis Lehane and Harlan Coben. These popular, award-winning series derive from the hard-boiled tradition established in the U.S.A. from the 1920s, centrally featuring... Read more

INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1   Robert B. Parker’s (Spenser and) ‘Hawk’; CHAPTER 2   James Lee Burke’s (Dave Robicheaux and) ‘Clete’; CHAPTER 3   Robert Crais’s (Elvis Cole and) ‘Pike’; CHAPTER 4   Walter Mosley’s (Easy Rawlins and) ‘Mouse’; CHAPTER 5   Dennis Lehane’s (Patrick Kenzie and) ‘Bubba’; CHAPTER 6   Harlan Coben’s (Myron Bolitar and) ‘Win’; CHAPTER 7   Comparisons and Contrasts; CHAPTER 8   Sidekicks and Violence; CONCLUSION

Biography

Terry Keefe is Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University, U.K. He holds degrees in French, Philosophy, and French philosophy. For over thirty years, he taught and researched French literature and philosophy at Leicester University (serving as Dean of Arts) and Lancaster. He has published books on existentialist fiction, Simone de Beauvoir, Zola, and autobiography. After early retirement, he engaged in conservation work, edited an environmentalist journal, and lectured on mysteries and mystery novels. In 2021, he published a book on premonitions of the Titanic disaster.