Stimes Addisson's Blues

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Collage which formed the basis for the cover of Stimes Addisson's Blues.
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Collage which formed the basis for the cover of Stimes Addisson's Blues.

Stimes Addisson's first Dutch Forkes novel, 1970. Dutch gets entangled with an old widow and her son smacks him with a hammer. Shenanigans ensue. A hard-boiled novel to a "t," this first-person account is also tremendously amusing. By no means great, it still manages to elevate the genre.

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