Solomon Vineyard (Audible Audio Edition) Jonathan Latimer Kevin Kraft Audible Studios Books
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Banned from publication in the U.S. due to its mature subject matter, Solomon's Vineyard is a tense, hard-boiled work starring Karl Craven, a non-nonsense guy who predates detectives like Lew Archer and Mike Hammer. Craven is out to rescue a wealthy heiress from a twisted cult. The novel's famous opening passage "From the way her buttocks looked under the black silk dress, I knew she'd be good in bed. The silk was tight and under it the muscles worked slow and easy. I saw weight there, and control, and, brother, those are things I like in a woman. I put down my bags and went after her along the station platform" - explains why this was too hot for domestic publication. (Initially published in 1941 in the UK, a heavily bowdlerized version came out in the '50s, but the less said about that one the better.)
Solomon Vineyard (Audible Audio Edition) Jonathan Latimer Kevin Kraft Audible Studios Books
They withheld this book for publication for a few kinky moments although you would have no trouble shooting this story for basic cable these days. Outside of the controversy it's a well done detective caper. The protagonist is in the mold of the Continental Op, in that he's heavy-set and emotionally detached. There is an homage to Red Harvest here too in the detective's endgame. I wouldn't say that it's as good as the best Op stories but it's as good as the average ones which is pretty good praise.The essence here is that our protagonist and his partner are hired to get a rich man's daughter away from a cult. The partner is killed during the story and that gives the detective one more thing worry about. And then he runs into the femme fatale and really has his hands full. I was wondering how he would tie it all up in the end and it was clever and yet consistent and earned through the hard plotting that came before
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Solomon Vineyard (Audible Audio Edition) Jonathan Latimer Kevin Kraft Audible Studios Books Reviews
This is a stunningly good noir classic. What makes Latimer different from other mystery writers of his era is his fast pace and wild imagination. The title screams "boring" but the book is anything but that. This is the first novel of Latimer's I have read but I plan on reading the others as soon as I can. Highly recommended.
Reviewers below invoke Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest" in praising this book, and it's not hard to see why. It has the same gritty, cynical, and terse outlook, and the same wise-to-it-all dialogue. In both, a tough, laconic private dick arrives in a corrupt town to solve a mystery, plays both ends against the middle, and engages in almost cheerful brutality to tie things up to his satisfaction.
Why is this a four-star read instead of a five-star? Because measured against the stark perfection of "Red Harvest" it's not quite in the same ballpark. Make no mistake this is still a fine read, but it suffers in comparison with its inspiration-- and nitpickers could fault it for a predictable plot-twist and a too-abrupt ending.
Still, track this one down if you like the rough stuff. The writing is crisp and crackling, the babes are hot, and the blood flows freely.
SOLOMON'S VINEYARD by John Latimer offers a real treat for readers who'd like to savor a story by one of the pioneers of the hardboiled style of detective fiction. Originally written in 1941, it was banned in the U.S. because of sexual references and a kinky encounter. It reflects the attitudes of its time and conventions of the pulp fiction heyday.
Contemporary readers unable to enjoy this as a period piece will find something to offend every sensibility racism, ethnic slurs and sexism. The macho fight scenes and graphic violence are so over the top as to be campy. The same holds true for the prodigious drinking and eating of the novel's anti-hero detective. This may reflect Latimer's well-established tendency to include comedic elements in his work.
Still, the beat, the pace, the dialogue all add up to a satisfying and well-crafted mystery. The subject matter - a young heiress who's fallen captive to a mega-church style operation awash in money and spellbound by a charismatic leader - provides a surprisingly contemporary note.
Mystery fans who want to explore the dark, tough, morally ambivalent roots of hardboiled P.I.'s could make a good start here.
Dames, booze, guns...and a giggly bartender. What else do you need? Set somewhere in a hot city near a mysterious cult called the vineyard. What does the vineyard do exactly? How do they recruit their members? How do they keep their members on the vineyard? Who is the Princess? And what exactly happened to Johnson? Read this atmospheric mystery and you will have your answers pal.....
This was a time of gun-carrying detectives (usually ex-cops or ex-Army), living in cheap hotels that cost $5.00 a day, who ate in diners, held clandestine meetings late at night in shady nightclubs. Dicks that never would use a word like "clandestine" in writing a review, who always had a few buxom women orbiting them like planets around a sun.
PI's who knew they had to spread a little money around to get the answers they needed. It's like returning to re-mine a vein of gold found once in a river....a return to some of the great American pulp and noir of the first half of the 20th century. Another great public domain book and as copyright laws expire on older novels, these great reads keep popping up. I plan on exploring as many as possible.
As Dan Draper said of someone's idea once, this is "derivative, with a twist." It is clearly derived from Red Harvest (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), but instead of Hammett's Gallic iciness, the fat detective who busts up the town has a Falstaffian urge to eat, drink, and copulate. (although there is no explicit sex. Tales of this book being "banned in the US until 1988" imply something unpublishable. It is racy, not pornographic.) I loved it, although it does seem to lose a bit of momentum in the last third or quarter.
Although currently unavailable in the store, I'm sure it will be back someday. If not, get thee to Munsey's for a free copy.
I understand this book was banned in the US for some time. The stated reason was the sex and violence, but I don't believe it. It was probably banned because it is so bad.
I like sex , violence and pulp fiction.
But the sex and violence here are so hollow so childish so flat it seems as though the author has heard about these things but has not experienced any of it. I am not suggesting that it is necessary that he murder someone to write about it but his descriptions are like a child pointing his toy gun at someone and saying"bang bang you're dead". This book is not sexy or violent it is just vulgar and shows a total lack of writing skill.
They withheld this book for publication for a few kinky moments although you would have no trouble shooting this story for basic cable these days. Outside of the controversy it's a well done detective caper. The protagonist is in the mold of the Continental Op, in that he's heavy-set and emotionally detached. There is an homage to Red Harvest here too in the detective's endgame. I wouldn't say that it's as good as the best Op stories but it's as good as the average ones which is pretty good praise.
The essence here is that our protagonist and his partner are hired to get a rich man's daughter away from a cult. The partner is killed during the story and that gives the detective one more thing worry about. And then he runs into the femme fatale and really has his hands full. I was wondering how he would tie it all up in the end and it was clever and yet consistent and earned through the hard plotting that came before
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