Special guest Mike Nugent, author of the Jersey Shore mystery series, joins Tea, Tonic & Toxin to discuss Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon.
Mike Nugent has worked as a lawyer lobbyist, litigator, and business executive in the technology, intellectual property, and financial services fields. He has always been a writer.
He has self-published three political mystery novels. He also self-published a children’s book. Several of his short stories are published in journals in the U.S. and abroad, one of which he has turned into was short screenplay.
Learn more about Mike Nugent below!
P. M. (Mike) Nugent writes books and stories he likes to read, books about old and hidden mysteries that explode into our everyday lives, stories about who we are or will be. Mike is a member of Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado, and lives close to the Jersey Shore. He has worked odd jobs as lawyer, lobbyist, litigator and business executive, and writer.
One of his books was a Writers and Readers magazine author-length featured thriller for two straight months, and another made it to the semifinalist round in the 2015 James Jones First Novel Fellowship Contest. That meant it was selected in the top 30 of more than 675 submissions.
The books in the Jersey Shore mystery series include The Edge of the Sand, Money Like Sand, and Castles of Sand.
Published in 1930, The Maltese Falcon is gritty, gripping noir at its best. As far as detective stories go, this one’s a game changer.
Detective Sam Spade’s cool, cynical nature turned him into one of the most memorable characters in literature and film, most notably the 1941 release starring Humphrey Bogart. Both the book and the movie are stunners.
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Tea, Tonic, and Toxin is a book club and podcast for people who love mysteries, thrillers, introspection, and good conversation. Each month, your hosts, Sarah Harrison and Carolyn Daughters, will discuss a game-changing mystery or thriller from the 19th and 20th centuries. Together, we’ll see firsthand how the genre evolved.
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Teasers & Tidbits
Dashiell Hammett’s crime novel Red Harvest is more than just a gripping detective story. It’s also a political statement, inspired
When Dorothy L. Sayers wrote Whose Body? (her debut novel, published in 1923), she introduced a detective who would go
If you’re a fan of Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries, I’m sure you’re already familiar with Hercule Poirot, the eccentric Belgian
This detective novel introduces readers to a British mining engineer – Richard Hannay – who has just returned to London
Even though the name of this book is Trent’s Last Case, the novel is actually about the FIRST detective case
Long before he started writing his own detective stories, Gilbert Keith (G.K.) Chesterton was already a fan of the genre.
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