A review by earlyandalone
Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze

5.0

This book is dark with comic edges and full pages of beautiful prose. It's arguably the only detective noir I've really read, but I would say it's the epitome of the genre--the hard-boiled, brooding criminal, Tim Sunblade, and his gorgeous, heartless woman, Virginia, joining together to commit the ultimate heist. There are mountains and chases and shoot outs and fancy New Orleans hotels and fleabitten motels and abandoned mines and jail cells and rose-tinted memories of small-town life. This is a quick, fun read--highly recommend.