![]() Sure, he may not enjoy the fame of Robert B. To ignore Healy's contributions to contemporary detective fiction seems ludicrous. And he's a multiple nominee (and one-time recipient) of the PWA's prestigious Shamus Award. John Francis Cuddy - have consistently been praised for their literary craftsmanship. His books - all but one of which have starred sensitive Beantown P.I. He's a past president of the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA). He has 14 novels, plus one short-story collection, to show for his persistence. How could this be, I wondered? After all, Healy has been working this genre's trenches since the early 1980s, when he was still teaching at the New England School of Law. I was surprised recently, while thumbing through a fat new encyclopedia of mystery and crime fiction, to discover no mention whatsoever of Boston lawyer-turned-author Jeremiah Healy. On the other hand, I think most readers prefer a clever puzzle to endless violence, and therefore the label 'standard whodunit' is, to me, an unintended compliment." In my books, I try to portray a private eye a little more realistically and that means having Cuddy talk to more people than he shoots. "I respect any reviewer's 'take' on a given work. ![]() The Concise Cuddy (1998) - short stories.Jeremiah Healy's John Francis Cuddy Series: ![]()
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