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Raymond Chandler, on writing:

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

- Raymond Chandler.

Recommended reading – The Owl: Justice Never Sleeps & The Owl: Scarlet Serenade

The Owl: Justice Never Sleeps

by Bob Forward.

First published in 1984.
Republished in 2014.
Published by Brash Books.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 1941298052
ISBN-13: 978-1941298053
 
Description:
 
Justic never sleeps.
 
Alexander L’Hiboux is a man who lives on the streets, who never sleeps, who never stops hunting his lawless prey… he is The Owl.
 
The most daring and original hero in crime fiction… in a debut novel that’s a relentless, pure-adrenaline rush.
 

It’s the mid-1980s. Crime in Los Angeles is running rampant. When the law can’t help you, there is one man who can: Alexander L’Hiboux, whose ability to sleep was destroyed in the ghastly tragedy that cost him his family. Now he’s justice-for-hire, prowling the streets and solving crimes with deadly finality. A desperate, grief-stricken shipping magnate hires The Owl to find the scum who brutalized his daughter…a quest that uncovers a shocking conspiracy that will rock the city.

 

“Mike Hammer is a wimp compared to The Owl,” – Bill Crider, author of Outrage at Blanco and the bestselling Sheriff Dan Rhoades mysteries.

 

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The Owl: Scarlet Serenade

by Bob Forward.

First published in 1990.
Republished in 2014.
Published by Brash Books.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 1941298214
ISBN-13: 978-1941298213
 
Description:
 
Alexander L’Hiboux is a man who lives on the streets, who never sleeps, who never stops hunting his lawless prey. He is…
 
THE OWL
 
Haunted. Lethal. Unstoppable. Justice incarnate.
 
The most daring and original hero in crime fiction in a scorching, action-packed adventure.
 
SCARLET SERENADE
 

It’s the mean-streets of L.A. in the mid-1980s. When The Owl rescues a young punk-rock starlet from being kidnapped, he considered it just a minor good deed with a few dead bodies left scattered around. But he soon discovers that she’s the target of a gangland conspiracy that has half of the city’s underworld after her. Now the only thing between her and certain death is The Owl.

 

“Exhilarating! A pure action high unlike anything I’ve ever read before. The Owl is a cross between Batman and The Terminator…but he’s even more deadly and relentless,” –  Lee Goldberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Chase.

 

“It starts off over the top and builds from there. There’s action aplenty. The Owl absorbs more punishment than any two or three or four people in other novels,” – Bill Crider, author of Outrage at Blanco.

Born on this day – Jules Furthman:

 

Jules Furthman

Writer

March 5, 1888 – September 22, 1966

Credits:

Rio Bravo (1959); Jet Pilot (1957); Lux Video Theatre (1957); Cheyenne (1956); Peking Express (1951); Pretty Baby (1950); Nightmare Alley (1947); Moss Rose (1947); The Big Sleep (1946); To Have and Have Not (1944); The Outlaw (1943); The Shanghai Gesture (1941); The Way of All Flesh (1940); Northwest Passage (1940); Only Angels Have Wings (1939); Zaza (1938); Spawn of the North (1938); They Gave Him a Gun (1937); The Good Earth (1937); Come and Get It (1936); Mutiny on the Bounty (1935); China Seas (1935); Bombshell (1933); 6 Hours to Live (1932); Blonde Venus (1932); Shanghai Express (1932); Over the Hill (1931); The Yellow Ticket (1931); Merely Mary Ann (1931); Cuerpo y alma (1931); Body and Soul (1931); Morocco (1930); Renegades (1930); Common Clay (1930); New York Nights (1929); Thunderbolt (1929); The Case of Lena Smith (1929); The Docks of New York (1928); The Dragnet (1928); Abie's Irish Rose (1928); The City Gone Wild (1927); The Way of All Flesh (1927); Barbed Wire (1927); Fashions for Women (1927); Casey at the Bat (1927); The Love Wager (1927); Hotel Imperial (1927); You'd Be Surprised (1926); The Wise Guy (1926); Big Pal (1925); Before Midnight (1925); Any Woman (1925); Sackcloth and Scarlet (1925); Romola (1924); Call of the Mate (1924); Try and Get It (1924); Condemned (1923); The Acquittal (1923); North of Hudson Bay (1923); High Gear Jeffrey (1923); St. Elmo (1923); Lovebound (1923); Pawn Ticket 210 (1922); A California Romance (1922); The Love Gambler (1922); Calvert's Valley (1922); Strange Idols (1922); The Yellow Stain (1922); Arabian Love (1922); The Ragged Heiress (1922); Gleam O'Dawn (1922); The Roof Tree (1921); The Last Trail (1921); Colorado Pluck (1921); The Blushing Bride (1921); The Big Punch (1921); The Cheater Reformed (1921); The Land of Jazz (1920); Singing River (1920); The Iron Rider (1920); The Texan (1920); The Skywayman (1920); The Man Who Dared (1920); The White Circle (1920); The Great Redeemer (1920); A Sister to Salome (1920); Twins of Suffering Creek (1920); Leave It to Me (1920); Would You Forgive? (1920); Treasure Island (1920); The Valley of Tomorrow (1920); The Beloved Cheater (1919); The Lincoln Highwayman (1919); Victory (1919); Six Feet Four (1919); This Hero Stuff (1919); A Sporting Chance (1919); Some Liar (1919); Brass Buttons (1919); Where the West Begins (1919); When a Man Rides Alone (1919); The Mantle of Charity (1918); Wives and Other Wives (1918); All the World to Nothing (1918); Hobbs in a Hurry (1918); A Japanese Nightingale (1918); Up Romance Road (1918); Hearts or Diamonds? (1918); A Camouflage Kiss (1918); Souls in Pawn (1917); The Masked Heart (1917); The Shackles of Truth (1917); The Frame-Up (1917); High Play (1917); The Little Blonde in Black (1915); A Fiery Introduction (1915); Quits / The Sheriff of Long Butte (1915); Mountain Justice (1915); Chasing the Limited (1915); Bound on the Wheel (1915); Steady Company (1915).

Born on this day – Dorothy Green:

 

Dorothy Green

Actress

March 5, 1892 – November 16, 1963

Credits:

A Parisian Romance (1916); After Dark (1915); Forest Rivals (1919); Her Mother's Secret (1915); My Favorite Husband (1953); Patria (1917); The A.B.C. of Love (1919); The American Way (1919); The Country Boy (1915); The Dark Star (1919); The Devil at His Elbow (1916); The Good-Bad Wife (1920); The Grouch (1918); The Lesson (1917); The Model (1915); The Praise Agent (1919); The Spirit of the Poppy (1914); The Wonderful Adventure (1915); Your Favorite Story (1954).

Born on this day – Symona Boniface:

 

Symona Boniface

Actress

March 5, 1894 – September 2, 1950

Credits:

A Duke for a Day (1934); A Pinch in Time (1948); A Plumbing We Will Go (1940); A Voice in the Wilderness (1949); All Gummed Up (1947); All the World's a Stooge (1941); Among the Missing (1934); An Ache in Every Stake (1941); Andy Plays Hookey (1946); Angel and the Badman (1947); Ankles Away (1938); Appointment with Danger (1950); Arsène Lupin (1932); Baby Brother (1927); Back Street (1932); Beauty for Sale (1933); Bedlam in Paradise (1955); Between Midnight and Dawn (1950); Beware of Blondie (1950); Billie Gets Her Man (1948); Born to Kill (1947); Born to Sing (1942); British Agent (1934); Broadway Bill (1934); Call Her Savage (1932); Christopher Bean (1933); Clancy Street Boys (1943); Confession (1937); Crash Goes the Hash (1944); Daybreak (1931); Dragnet Patrol (1931); Earl Carroll Sketchbook (1946); Easy to Love (1934); Feed 'em and Weep (1928); Flat Feat (1948); Forgotten Faces (1928); G.I. Wanna Home (1946); Gallant Journey (1946); Get Along Little Zombie (1946); Gilda (1946); Girl Without a Room (1933); Girls' Dormitory (1936); Girls of the Big House (1945); Go Chase Yourself (1948); Groom and Bored (1942); Half Shot at Sunrise (1941); Half-Wits Holiday (1947); Heavenly Daze (1948); Hectic Honeymoon (1947); Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945); Hey Moe, Hey Dad! (2015); High Blood Pleasure (1945); Hiss and Yell (1946); In Early Arizona (1938); In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941); It's Tough to Be Famous (1932); Jerks of All Trades (1949); Jiggers, My Wife (1946); Joan of Arc (1948); La vida nocturna (1930); Leaping Love (1929); Loco Boy Makes Good (1942); Lost in a Harem (1944); Madame Q (1929); Marihuana (1936); Meet Mr. Mischief (1947); Micro-Phonies (1945); Monte Carlo (1930); Moron Than Off (1946); Movie Night (1929); Mrs. Parkington (1944); Murder in Times Square (1943); New News (1937); Ninotchka (1939); No Census, No Feeling (1940); Nursie Behave (1950); Oh, Baby! (1944); Oh, Duchess! (1936); On Your Toes (1939); One Dangerous Night (1942); One Night of Love (1934); Pack Up Your Troubles (1932); Pardon My Berth Marks (1940); Pardon My Nightshirt (1956); Pardon My Scotch (1935); Pest Man Wins (1951); Pirates of the High Seas (1950); Pitchin' in the Kitchen (1943); Radio Romeo (1947); Reunion in Vienna (1933); Rio (1939); Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950); Rolling Down to Reno (1947); Scheming Schemers (1956); Shanghai (1935); Show Girl (1928); Show People (1928); Skyway (1933); Slappily Married (1946); Slightly French (1949); Small Talk (1929); Some More of Samoa (1941); Souls in Pawn (1940); Spook Louder (1943); Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960); Strictly Unreliable (1932); Strife of the Party (1944); Sunny Side Up (1929); Talk About a Lady (1946); Tarzan the Fearless (1933); Tassels in the Air (1938); Termites of 1938 (1938); That Girl from Paris (1936); The Beast with Five Fingers (1946); The Black Cat (1934); The Blitz Kiss (1941); The Buccaneers (1928); The Caretaker's Daughter (1925); The Count of Monte Cristo (1934); The Fallen Sparrow (1943); The Fatal Warning (1929); The Golden Arrow (1936); The Good Bad Egg (1947); The Hoose-Gow (1929); The House on 56th Street (1933); The Jolson Story (1946); The Kiss (1929); The Last Days of Pompeii (1935); The Man from Colorado (1948); The Man Who Played God (1932); The Mating Call (1928); The Medicine Men (1929); The Mind Reader (1933); The Murder in the Museum (1934); The Mysterious Lady (1928); The Mysterious Mr. Valentine (1946); The Notorious Lone Wolf (1946); The Public Defender (1931); The Return of October (1948); The Scooper Dooper (1947); The Sheepish Wolf (1948); The Untamed Breed (1948); The Vagabond Lover (1929); Three Little Pigskins (1936); Turn Back the Clock (1933); Two Nuts in a Rut (1948); Two Roaming Champs (1950); Two Sisters from Boston (1946); Unexpected Riches (1942); Vagabond Loafers (1949); Waiting in the Lurch (1949); Washee Ironee (1934); Waterloo Bridge (1931); Wedding Belle (1947); What a Bozo! (1931); Wilson (1944); With Love and Hisses (1927); Woman of the Year (1942); Women Are Like That (1938); You Dear Boy! (1943).

Born on this day – Virginia Christine:

Virginia Christine

Actress

March 5, 1920 – July 24, 1996

Credits:

The Insiders (1986); The Puppy's Further Adventures (1982); Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979); Kojak (1976); Woman of the Year (1976); Ironside (1974); This Is the Life (1956–1971); The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970); Nanny and the Professor (1970); Daniel Boone (1968–1970); Daughter of the Mind (1969); Hail, Hero! (1969); Lancer (1969); The F.B.I. (1966–1968); n Enemy Country (1968); The Virginian (1963–1967); Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967); The Invaders (1967); Judd for the Defense (1967); The Felony Squad (1967); Jericho (1966); A Man Called Shenandoah (1966); Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966); Laredo (1966); A Rage to Live (1965); The Big Valley (1965); Wagon Train (1961–1965); Gunsmoke (1957–1965); Broadside (1965); The Fugitive (1964–1965); Bonanza (1963–1964); Hazel (1964); The Killers (1964); One Man's Way (1964); Ben Casey (1963–1964); Mr. Novak (1964); The Prize (1963); 4 for Texas (1963); Perry Mason (1961–1963); Cattle King (1963); 77 Sunset Strip (1960–1963); The Untouchables (1960–1963); The Eleventh Hour (1963); Stoney Burke (1962); Going My Way (1962); Incident in an Alley (1962); Tales of Wells Fargo (1960–1962); Target: The Corruptors! (1962); The New Breed (1962); Bronco (1962); Shotgun Slade (1961); Judgment at Nuremberg (1961); The Rifleman (1959–1961); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); Rawhide (1960–1961); Mister Ed (1961); The Asphalt Jungle (1961); The Deputy (1961); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1961); Maverick (1961); Coronado 9 (1960–1961); Flaming Star (1960); Death Valley Days (1960); Thriller (1960); Happy (1960); The Loretta Young Show (1958–1960); Riverboat (1960); M Squad (1960); Pay the Piper (1959); Special Agent 7 (1959); The Man from Blackhawk (1959); The Twilight Zone (1959); General Electric Theater (1956–1959); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959); How to Marry a Millionaire (1959); Man Without a Gun (1959); State Trooper (1957–1959); Frontier Doctor (1959); The Lawless Years (1959); Steve Canyon (1959); Rescue 8 (1959); Target (1958); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1958); The Donna Reed Show (1958); Trackdown (1957–1958); Buckskin (1958); Zane Grey Theatre (1958); Peter Gunn (1958); Behind Closed Doors (1958); The Thin Man (1958); The Millionaire (1958); Mike Hammer (1958); Whirlybirds (1957–1958); Studio 57 (1956–1958); The Restless Gun (1958); Matinee Theatre (1956–1958); Casey Jones (1957); Code 3 (1957); The Careless Years (1957); Johnny Tremain (1957); The Lone Ranger (1957); Hey, Jeannie! (1957); Wire Service (1957); The Spirit of St. Louis (1957); King of the Block (1956); Three Brave Men (1956); Cavalcade of America (1955–1956); The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956); Science Fiction Theatre (1956); Sneak Preview (1956); Passport to Danger (1956); Big Town (1950); Private Secretary (1956); The Ford Television Theatre (1954–1956); Nightmare (1956); Father Knows Best (1956); Front Row Center (1956); The Star and the Story (1956); Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956); The Killer Is Loose (1956); Crusader (1956); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955); Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955); Soldiers of Fortune (1955); Not as a Stranger (1955); The Cobweb (1955); Public Defender (1955); Stage 7 (1955); The Whistler (1954); Dragnet (1952–1954); Dragnet (1954); Schlitz Playhouse (1954); Four Star Playhouse (1953–1954); Adventures of Superman (1954); The Abbott and Costello Show (1952–1953); Woman They Almost Lynched (1953); I'm the Law (1953); Chevron Theatre (1953); Never Wave at a WAC (1953); Dangerous Assignment (1952); High Noon (1952); Personal Appearance Theater (1952); Racket Squad (1952); The First Time (1952); Boston Blackie (1951); Mark Saber (1951); Cyrano de Bergerac (1950); The Men (1950); Special Agent (1949); Cover Up (1949); Night Wind (1948); Women in the Night (1948); The Gangster (1947); The Invisible Wall (1947); The Mysterious Mr. Valentine (1946); The Killers (1946); The Inner Circle (1946); The Wife of Monte Cristo (1946); House of Horrors (1946); Murder Is My Business (1946); Idea Girl (1946); The Scarlet Horseman (1946); Girls of the Big House (1945); Phantom of the Plains (1945); Counter-Attack (1945); The Mummy's Curse (1944); The Old Texas Trail (1944); Raiders of Ghost City (1944); Women at War (1943); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Edge of Darkness (1943); Truck Busters (1943).