The Black Marble Book Review

Being poorly bound we held the book together with a rubber band as we passed it to yet another person.

The black marble book review.

The characters are so deep and true the humour is totally human the situations are tense desperate and awful but that sick sense of humour of wambaugh s works so well. The black marble pool gives a glimpse into the lives of the characters who lived the book was originally published in 1990 but has just been republished by requeered tales. 1937 began his writing career while a member of the los angeles police department. It is based on the 1978 novel by joseph wambaugh.

The black marble revolves around a drunk detective valnikov his new partner s efforts to get him sacked and his investigation into a dognapping. Natalie zimmerman played by paula prentiss as a combination of sally kellerman and lucille ball his new partner thinks valnikov is insane. Needed to reread a favorite book from my 20 s this book was a family favorite when i was in my 20 s. Reviewed in the united states on august 17 2017 wambaugh is simply the best at writing about the wacked out criminals and bizarrely motivated victims that cops meet.

A fan of joseph wambaugh from that day forward. The black marble that s what losers like val and philo always wind up with should hive been better than it is. The police station running gags are too running to be real the black comic touches like a pet funeral prove again that wambaugh ain t waugh and andrushka and natasha deserve better than a pure musical comedy ending. The black marble 1978 is i think joseph wambaugh s triumph.

The black marble pool is a murder mystery but it didn t really work for me in this context. The book was read by my sister dad mother aunt and so many more. It is a near perfect crime novel. Many of his novels include large amounts of tragedy but that s not the case this time although there are still a few brutal crimes described.

This is a police drama where the central case is a dog napping. The son of a policeman joseph wambaugh b. The black marble is one of joseph wambaugh s most humorous crime fiction novels. Not to mention some of the strange characters carrying a badge.

All of us loved it. Flag 1 like like see review. The black marble centers around several days in the life of a los angeles police sergeant named valnikov robert foxworth an incurably romantic russian who has been drinking too much since his partner s suicide he gets a new partner sgt.