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Mark McCracken's private eye novel The Sausalito Ferry to Hell features San Francisco based shamus Sean O'Farrell. It is a period piece set during the 1930's though the period never figures into McCracken's narrative in an important way. McCracken, like many practitioners of this style, makes great use of setting and he familiarizes readers early on with San Francisco and its environs. It isn't Raymond Chandler and Los Angeles level where the city is practically another character in the novel, but McCracken does a respectable job of emphasizing its importance. O'Farrell, as a character, is a mix of the Hammett styled rough-hewn private investigator, but there are shades of Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer present in the detective's more vulnerable moments. It makes for an effective combination.
Titles in the series (2)
- The Halfway to Hell Club: A Sean O'Farrell Mystery, #1
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In 1938 San Francisco, Private Eye Sean O'Farrell has his hands full. For clients, he has a good looking lady Doctor with a cheating husband, or does she? The Lord of Chinatown has a minor family problem that needs looking into, minor, just how minor? His life quickly becomes a cable car ride that is out of control. One false move could be curtains, a quick trip to hell, but if he's lucky he may only end up as a member of The Halfway to Hell Club.
- The Sausalito Ferry to Hell: A Sean O'Farrell Mystery, #2
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Mark McCracken's private eye novel The Sausalito Ferry to Hell features San Francisco based shamus Sean O'Farrell. It is a period piece set during the 1930's though the period never figures into McCracken's narrative in an important way. McCracken, like many practitioners of this style, makes great use of setting and he familiarizes readers early on with San Francisco and its environs. It isn't Raymond Chandler and Los Angeles level where the city is practically another character in the novel, but McCracken does a respectable job of emphasizing its importance. O'Farrell, as a character, is a mix of the Hammett styled rough-hewn private investigator, but there are shades of Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer present in the detective's more vulnerable moments. It makes for an effective combination.
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