Tag: Hammett

• BOOK REVIEW: SHAMUS DUST by JANET ROGER

  

  The Blurb: Two candles flaring at a Christmas crib. A nurse who steps inside a church to light them. A gunshot emptied in a man s head in the creaking stillness before dawn, that the nurse says she didn’t hear. It s 1947 in the snowbound, war-scarred City of London, where Pandora s Box just got opened…

  Iain Kelly

  01/09/2020

  book review, creative writing, Literature, Review

  #amreading, #amwriting, book, book review, chandler, crime, detective, Fiction, Hammett, hard-boiled, janet roger, london, mike hammer, mikey spillane, murder, noir, novel, published, Review, shamus dust, Writing

• BE STILL MY BEATING HEART

  

  In the dead of the night. That was how I expected to find her. Dead. As I approached the house, nothing changed my mind. It was still. Still like a house with no one alive in it. I pictured the scene I knew was waiting for me. Her, lying on the floor. Red blood pooling…

  Iain Kelly

  10/10/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

  #writephoto, Abuse, blood, chandler, creative writing, dead, defence, detective, drama, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Hammett, house, investigator, Knife, literature, murder, night, noir, private eye, Short Story, still, stillness, story, thriller, Thursday Photo Prompt, Writing, writing prompt