James Carlos Blake

The Killings of Stanley Ketchel

By James Carlos Blake - Published 2005

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Stanley Ketchel was a complex man. To women he was a handsome and generous lover; to men he was the man they secretly ...Read Review

Handsome Harry, or the Gangster’s True Confession

By James Carlos Blake - Published 2004

Genres:

Biographical FictionMystery/Crime

The novel opens on October 16, 1934. “Handsome Harry” Pierpont, the narrator, is to be executed in the morning. In a sort of swaggering jailhouse ...Read Review

A World of Thieves

By James Carlos Blake - Published 2003

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

These two Prohibition-era tough-guy crime thrillers (this one and Under the Skin) are almost (but not quite) the continuation of the other, and ...Read Review

Wildwood Boys: A Novel

By James Carlos Blake - Published 2000

Genres:

MilitaryWestern

William (Bill) Anderson lived peacefully enough on his parents’ farm together with his brother and three sisters. They were a musical family, fond ...Read Review

Red Grass River: A Legend

By James Carlos Blake - Published 2000

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

John Ashley’s gang was mostly a family affair, a notorious crew of moonshiners, bootleggers and natural-born outlaws, thriving in the Florida Everglades ...Read Review