Webb Wilder, Last Of The Full Grown Men

by Steve Boyle

This is the first book in a series that has never been completed. This first issue offers some fantastic promise, so maybe there will be more some day. Webb Wilder, Last of the Full Grown Men is faithful to the hard-boiled detective / film noir visions of the 1940's and 1950's, but set in the pop culture world of today. Webb Wilder, as a detective, is a semi-urban hero dealing with characters that are bigger than life and twice as impossible. Webb gets dragged, suckered, or voluntarily dives into situations that seem incredible at first, but logic and luck win out in the end. With all of this intrigue, dark images and odd casting, "Webb Wilder, Last of the Full Grown Men" is also very funny. Consider if Raymond Chandler had written Philip Marlowe for a hybrid of Andy Griffith, John Stewart and Humphrey Bogart. Two stories plus a tease to the third story, are published in one edition. Published as a standard paperback, "Mole Men" and "The Doll" are printed together, with each book's cov