Johnny Saxon
Created by William G. Bogart (1903-1977)
Turns out there was another hard-boiled Bogart we have to deal with: William G. Bogart, who worked the pulp racket, both as an editor and later as a writer. He wrote stories for all sorts of pulp mags, from romance and western to sci-fi and crime, and eventually even signed on to ghostwrite Doc Savage stories and novels. But of most interest to readers of this site were the three good, gritty P.I. novels he wrote in the 1940s, featuring Manhattan private peeper JOHNNY SAXON.
The gi,,ick here is that Johnny isn't a hard-boiled private eye, really -- he used to be but now he's a hard-boiled private eye writer. Still, his portrayal of the world of the "fast action magazines" is as viscious and acid-laced as Chandler's views of Hollywood. And bodies do tend to pop up with alarming frequnecy.
NOVELS
Report respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
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