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Ross Thomas (1926–1995)

Autor de Briarpatch

50+ Obras 3,918 Miembros 73 Reseñas 25 Preferidas

Sobre El Autor

Writer Ross Thomas was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on February 19, 1926. During World War II, he served in the Philippines. Before becoming a writer in 1965, he worked as a pulic relations specialist and a reporter. He has written over twenty novels, including The Cold War Swap, which won the mostrar más 1967 Edgar Award for best first novel, and Briarpatch, which won the 1985 Edgar Award for best novel. He also wrote a series of novels under the pseudonym Oliver Bleeck. Besides writing novels, he worked on the following three screenplays: St. Ives, which was based on a character he created, Hammett, and Bad Company. He died in Santa Monica, California on December 18, 1995. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Nota de desambiguación:

(eng) Oliver Bleeck was a pen name of Ross Thomas. Ross Thomas and Thomas Ross are two different names ( different surnames) please do not combine these.

Series

Obras de Ross Thomas

Briarpatch (1984) 388 copias
Chinaman's Chance (1978) 330 copias
Al borde del Pacífico (1987) 263 copias
The Cold War Swap (1966) 239 copias
The Fourth Durango (1989) 230 copias
Twilight at Mac's Place (1990) 207 copias
Cast a Yellow Shadow (1967) 205 copias
Voodoo Ltd (1993) 203 copias
Guiso canibal (1983) 156 copias
The Eighth Dwarf (1979) 156 copias
Ah, Treachery! (1994) 154 copias
The Backup Men (1971) 117 copias
The Singapore Wink (1969) 110 copias
The Money Harvest (1975) 103 copias
If You Can't Be Good (1973) 101 copias
The Seersucker Whipsaw (1967) 97 copias
Yellow-Dog Contract (1977) 91 copias
The Mordida Man (1981) 89 copias
The Porkchoppers (1972) 89 copias
The Brass Go-Between (1969) 85 copias
The Procane Chronicle (1971) 75 copias
Protocol for a Kidnapping (1971) 74 copias
The Highbinders (1974) 65 copias
No Questions Asked (1976) 63 copias
Teufels Küche (2010) 3 copias
Bad Company [1995 film] (1995) — Writer — 3 copias
Spies, Thumbsuckers, Etc. (1989) 2 copias
Chien de métier (1970) 1 copia
Any 1 copia
La madriguera (1984) 1 copia
Maailman laidalla (1995) 1 copia

Obras relacionadas

D.C. Noir 2: The Classics (2008) — Contribuidor — 63 copias
Blood In, Blood Out [1993 film] (1993) — Original story — 26 copias
The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold [2006 film] (2006) — Actor, algunas ediciones17 copias

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Thomas, Ross
Otros nombres
Bleeck, Oliver (pseudonym)
Fecha de nacimiento
1926-02-16
Fecha de fallecimiento
1995-12-18
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
Santa Monica, California, USA
Lugares de residencia
California, USA
Ocupaciones
public relations specialist
political strategist
union spokesman
reporter
soldier
Premios y honores
Gumshoe Award (Lifetime Achievement, 2002)
Aviso de desambiguación
Oliver Bleeck was a pen name of Ross Thomas.

Ross Thomas and Thomas Ross are two different names ( different surnames) please do not combine these.

Miembros

Reseñas

I got this book because i totally loved the TV show.   I don't normally watch TV shows before i read the book but i got totally hooked on it because it was just so frigging awesome.

But having had a brief start at reading this book, it just isn't as good as the TV show.   Pick is a guy in the book whereas in the TV show it's Rosario Dawson and i just can't get my head around Pick being a man.

So i've decided to put this away for quite a few years when i hopefully may have forgotten all about the TV show and then i'll come back and give it a read.   Probably not though.   Me thinks it's just one of those books that will get relegated to "The Boneyard" forever.… (más)
 
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5t4n5 | 15 reseñas más. | Aug 9, 2023 |
Have to confess that I can never follow complicated con games (I still haven't figured out what happened in Oceans 11, and I've watched it several times), but I enjoyed the pace and the characters in this one, not to mention the retro-LA setting.
 
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JudyGibson | 7 reseñas más. | Jan 26, 2023 |
This is my second book by Ross Thomas. I read "The Fools in Town are on Our Side " a few week before this, and enjoyed it enough to seek more. Both had interesting stories, humorous dialogs, lots of twists and turns, and people having bad days in general.

I will most likely read more by this author.
 
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MartyFried | 7 reseñas más. | Oct 9, 2022 |
I liked this a lot. The dialog was quick and witty, the plot was complex and hard to figure out, the characters were great, mostly likable. Even the villains were almost likable. The style is a little like the old-fashioned detective novels like Dashiell Hammett or Philip Marlowe, although I can't really recall either of them.

I'm still not 100% sure exactly what happened, perhaps because I had the audiobook version, and may have missed parts of it. I did have to go back a few times, and I think I got most of it. I wouldn't mind rereading it one day, but there's more in the series of the main character, Arthur Case Wu, the Chinaman who is unlike any Chinaman I've ever met. A pretty interesting guy.… (más)
 
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MartyFried | 7 reseñas más. | Oct 9, 2022 |

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Obras
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También por
4
Miembros
3,918
Popularidad
#6,459
Valoración
3.9
Reseñas
73
ISBNs
398
Idiomas
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