Harold Adams
One of my favorite writers, Harold Adams, is a veteran writer (now in his mid seventies), born in Clark, SD, grew up in North and South Dakota and Wisconsin. In 1961 he starts writing hour and a half each day. In 1981 he wrote his first from series of books about Carl Wilcox, a jail bird and a Philippine war veteran with a tendency for drinking, who from a local trouble maker becomes a local investigator in the small town of Corden in South Dakota. It would be tough to find a smaller town with so many mysteries, in which Carl seems to thrive in, especially if there is an occasional attractive widow involved. Everything is happening in 30s during the great depression when many people became unemployed, by luck of the draw Carl gets a job of a local private investigator. The atmosphere created in these novels is truly exceptional, dusty streets of a small provincial town, a bunch of interesting characters, dialogs in which Carl always holds his own.
Highly recommended!!!
Carl Wilcox, a Depression era sign-painter in South Dakota, is featured in:
| In English | In Serbo-Croatian |
| Murder (1981) | Ubojstvo ( Trag 285, X/90 ) |
| Paint the Town Red (1982) | Uzbuna u gradu ( Trag 287, XII/90 ) |
| The Missing Moon (1983) | Zamka ( Trag 253, II/88 ) |
| The Naked Liar (1985) | Goli Lazljivac ( Trag 275, XII/89 ) |
| The Fourth Widow (1986) | |
| The Barbed Wire Noose (1987) | Omca od bodljikave zice ( Trag 263, XII/88 ) |
| The Man Who Met the Train (1988) | Covijek koji je docekao vlak ( Trag 297,X/91) |
| The Man Who Missed the Party (1989) | Sezona lova ( Trag 282, VII/90 ) |
| The Man Who Was Taller Than God (1992) | |
| A Perfectly Proper Murder (1993) | |
| A Way With Widows (1994) | |
| The Ditched Blonde (1995) | |
| Hatchet Job (1996) | |
| The Ice Pick Artist (1997) | |
| No Badge, No Gun (1998) | |
| Lead, So I Can Follow (1999) |
Non Series Books
| In English | In Serbo-Croatian |
| The Tief Who Stole Heaven | |
| When Rich Men Die (1987) | Bogataseva smrt ( Trag 259, VIII/88 ) |