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| | Authors and Creators: Jonathan Latimer |
 | | Born in Chicago, Illinois, Jonathan Latimer was educated in Arizona and Illinois. |
 | | Like Hammett's Nick and Nora, Latimer's Bill Crane was a booze-soaked, seemingly-inept detective who somehow always managed, despite always being either drunk or hung over, to crack the case, despite the ponderous and copious intake of a variety of intoxicating substances. |
 | | Latimer published at least one more classic, 1941's Solomon's Vineyard, a true hardboiled classic, and pretty hot stuff, evidently, at least in the eyes of the protectors of American decency. |
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