The Black Marble Book Review

The black marble that s what losers like val and philo always wind up with should hive been better than it is.

The black marble book review.

This is only the second book i have read by this author as i always assumed his books would be quite gory not sure where i got that idea from but in actual fact they are laugh out loud funny. The black marble revolves around a drunk detective valnikov his new partner s efforts to get him sacked and his investigation into a dognapping. Flag 1 like like see review. Reviewed in the united states on august 17 2017 wambaugh is simply the best at writing about the wacked out criminals and bizarrely motivated victims that cops meet.

The son of a policeman joseph wambaugh b. All of us loved it. The black marble pool is a murder mystery but it didn t really work for me in this context. The black marble centers around several days in the life of a los angeles police sergeant named valnikov robert foxworth an incurably romantic russian who has been drinking too much since his partner s suicide he gets a new partner sgt.

He joined the lapd in 1960 after three years in the marine corps and rose to the rank of detective sergeant before retiring in 1974. Needed to reread a favorite book from my 20 s this book was a family favorite when i was in my 20 s. Not to mention some of the strange characters carrying a badge. Being poorly bound we held the book together with a rubber band as we passed it to yet another person.

This is a police drama where the central case is a dog napping. It is a near perfect crime novel. 1937 began his writing career while a member of the los angeles police department. The black marble is one of joseph wambaugh s most humorous crime fiction novels.

The black marble is a 1980 mystery romantic comedy film directed by harold becker and starring robert foxworth paula prentiss and harry dean stanton. The police station running gags are too running to be real the black comic touches like a pet funeral prove again that wambaugh ain t waugh and andrushka and natasha deserve better than a pure musical comedy ending. The characters are so deep and true the humour is totally human the situations are tense desperate and awful but that sick sense of humour of wambaugh s works so well. It is based on the 1978 novel by joseph wambaugh.

Many of his novels include large amounts of tragedy but that s not the case this time although there are still a few brutal crimes described. A fan of joseph wambaugh from that day forward. The black marble pool gives a glimpse into the lives of the characters who lived the book was originally published in 1990 but has just been republished by requeered tales.