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Loren D. Estleman Quotes

I don't have so many friends I can afford to drop one just because he tried to kill me.

I don't have so many friends I can afford to drop one just because he tried to kill me.

Loren D. Estleman
Kill Me, I Can, Many Friends
Loren D. Estleman (2011). “Amos Walker: The Complete Story Collection”, p.309, F+W Media, Inc.

Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest never hit home this hard. Reading of Eddie Perlmutter's exploits is like rolling in an aisle paved with broken glass and wanting to do it all over again two minutes later.

Loren D. Estleman
Reading, Home, Two

If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or the timber of a feminine voice, so much the better for us. Literature never produced a relationship more symbiotic nor a warmer and more timeless friendship.

Loren D. Estleman
Voice, Suffering, Literature

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