It’s hard to match the origin stories of America’s hardboiled crime novelists, but Jordan Harper’s comes close. Jim Thompson’s father was an Oklahoma sheriff who fled the state under a cloud of scandal-and eventually settled in Fort Worth, Tex., where his teenage son supplied guests with drugs, bootleg liquor, and prostitutes as a bellhop at the Hotel Texas. James Ellroy became obsessed with the Black Dahlia murder after his own mother’s violent death.
Dashiell Hammett was a Pinkerton detective.
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