Fred Crockett
Created by Brad Lang

FRED CROCKETT is the hip, swinging, long-haired dick in this short-lived Male Action Adventure series by Leisure.

"I came up with the idea of a tough detective who was a former hippie AND an ex-cop," sayus the author. "Yes, it was a stretch, but I wanted a character who was a liberal and a tough guy, too. After two years of writing and then searching for a publisher, Crockett was finally born in 1976."

"My books pretty much came and went without much of a ripple," admits Lang. "Leisure Books was known for Male Action Adventure, but because there was an editor there who liked my stuff, they published it even though the books weren't their usual cup of tea. No Mafia hit men or international spies or blood and gore. More a kind of poor man's Raymond Chandler. Maybe that's why they dropped the series after three books!"  

Lang maintains a web site called Classic Movies.org. He's works as a freelance writer and web designer, and is also the man behind Hardboiled Heaven.

NOVEL

• Crockett On The Loose (1975)
• The Perdition Express (1976)
• Brand Of Fear (1976)

RELATED LINKS

• Hardboiled Heaven
  Brad Lang's small but colourful site for the hardcore fan of hardboiled crime, mystery, and detective fiction, with some great paperback cover scans, and a little info on the Fred Crockett series.