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The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest DetectivesAbe Glitsky-HardyБЂ™s long-standing friend from his days as a cop and already a major character in the earlier Hardy novels-couldnБЂ™t have been more different from Hardy, but he was a pretty fascinating guy in his own right. I decided to explore his life and character first in A Certain Justice and then, because I enjoyed being with his cursed and curmudgeonly self so much, in Guilt. But a funny thing happened two years after IБЂ™d initially submitted The 13th Juror, when I was halfway through the process of writing Guilt. The 13th Juror finally came out in paperback and jumped onto the New York Times bestseller list, where it stayed and stayed and stayed. By this time, I had changed publishers to Delacorte, and that houseБЂ™s paperback imprint, Dell/Island, had published The 13th Juror, which was suddenly a very hot property. And that made Dismas Hardy commercially viable at last. Could Hardy, my publishers wondered, ever be coaxed into coming back again? Could he take another big novel with a big theme onto his big shoulders and carry it all-or mostly-by himself? I allowed as how he could ...» |
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