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Black Wings Has My Angel

By: Elliott Chaze
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
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She had the face of a madonna and a heart of dollar bills.

"I came back and searched dizzily under the trailer, muttering the way drunks do, and then I heard it. A shuffling around inside the trailer. The little tramp had knocked me in the head with her Southern Comfort and now she was in there loading up....She didn't know I was alive."

A legend among noir buffs, Chaze's long-lost pulp classic is the dreamlike tale of a man after a jailbreak who meets up with the woman of his dreams - and his nightmares.

Elliott Chaze (1915 - 1990) was an old-school newspaper man who began his journalism career with the New Orleans bureau of the Associated Press shortly before Pearl Harbor. He worked for a time for AP's Denver office after paratrooper service in World War II, and then migrated south to Mississippi where he spent 20 years as a reporter and award-winning columnist. He is the author of several novels.

©1953 Gold Medal Books; Reprinted by Black Mask 2005, 2009 (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction
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"An astonishingly well written literary novel that just happened to be about (or roundabout) a crime." ( Oxford American)
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Such beauty in blackness.The ideal Noir read....( And ,so little seen ,as if reversed down a literate cavern,where it sobbed til now).This is a raw blood diamond.Revel in it readers\ listeners.

Dark hubris -like a lion to a zookeepers thigh

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Listened for 40 minutes, not worth any more of my time.
Revisiting an outdated format and hitting amoral instead of hard-boiled.
Avoid.

Not funny, not clever.

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Very enjoyable. Not what I expected, but a fine treat. Well worth giving this a listen.

A fine, evocative, tale.

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I'm not an expert in the genre, but I've read quite a bit, and haven't come across anything more masterful than this. Plot, language, atmosphere, characterisation - they're all a solid 10. The narration is faultless, too. No doubt Chaze stood on the shoulders of giants such as Cain and Chandler, but he adds his own special touch; mostly because he's even darker. 'Life is a rental proposition with no lease.'

Exemplary noir

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loved it as good as Great Gatsby in my opinion sadly unknown until optioned as a film it just goes to show how many great ignored books from the past there must be

great book

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