Fri 7 Apr 2023
An Archived PI Mystery Review: DOUG HORNIG – The Dark Side.
Posted by Steve under Bibliographies, Lists & Checklists , Characters , Reviews[3] Comments
DOUG HORNIG – The Dark Side. Loren Swift #3, Mysterious Press, hardcover, 1986; paperback, 1987.
PI Loren Swift works out of Charlottesville, Virginia, and this is the third book of his adventures. He’s hired in this one to find out why carbon monoxide detector failed to operate properly. A man is dead.
His current lady friend is in a hospital in a coma, and it gets a little sticky when he’s assigned a female assistant. It’s an intense sort of book, full of highly charged emotions and entangled relationships – including sexual ones – and, yes, murder.
– Reprinted from Mystery.File.6, June 1980.
The Loren Swift series —
Foul Shot. Scribner 1984
Hardball. Scribner 1985
The Dark Side. Mysterious Press 1986
Deep Dive. Mysterious Press 1988
April 7th, 2023 at 2:20 pm
Loren Swift is yet another PI character who came along in the 1980, lasted for a short while, then disappeared without leaving much of a trace.
Unfortunately I didn’t say much about him in this short review I wrote at the time. To read more about him, and a little bit about the author, Doug Hornig, go here:
https://thrillingdetective.com/2021/09/28/loren-swift/
April 7th, 2023 at 3:36 pm
The last of the series reviewed here: https://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=16730
April 7th, 2023 at 4:32 pm
I completely forgot about that old review that Al Hubin allowed me to use. Thanks for the link, Tony!