#ramon decolta

[romances-not-tragedies]

Not in my writing mood but made this drawing of a fanart of Raoul Whitfield's Jo Gar, his Filipino hardboiled detective solving crimes in American-era Manila. Should I further color it or should this stay as it is?

[romances-not-tragedies]

Hello, guys!

I have not been active for the past few days, but guess who is rereading Jo Gar?

Moi, definitely.

This bitch, defo.

(A dramatic reenactment, possibly)

[seattlemysterybooks]

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October 1930

~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “Nagasaki Knives”, 2nd half of Jo Gar story, 7th of 24 stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “The Dark Pack”, ‘Western’, 19th of 39 stories in BM

~ James Howard Leveque, “Nigger Loon”, bayou tale, sole appearance in BM

~ James P. Olsen, “’Shot!’”, 1st of 6 Western stories in BM

~ Lester Reynard, “Ladies Love Diamonds”, ‘San Francisco setting’, last of 5 stories in BM

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Death in a Bowl”, 2nd of 3 serialized parts, ‘Ben Jardinn, Hollywood eye, & murder in Hollywood Bowl’, ‘(originally titled The Maestro Murder)’, published in hardcover in 1931 by Knopf, 42nd of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

Seattle Mystery Bookshop