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Jerome Doolittle

Jerome Doolittle (1933-2015) was the American crime writer and former speechwriter for Jimmy Carter whose Tom Bethany Cambridge PI series (Body Scissors, Bear Hug, Half Nelson) ran ten entries and is one of the more underread legal-and-political PI series of its era.

Reviews

3

Books on file

6

Avg rating

3.0

Years active

1991-1996

Reviewed

Our reviews of Jerome Doolittle's work

The takes

What we have said about Jerome Doolittle

  • The first Tim Lyon novel. Jerome Doolittle writing 1990 Washington crime fiction with a former-newspaperman protagonist. Sharp regional detail.

  • Strangle Hold by Jerome Doolittle review. The 2nd Tim Lyon mystery. A DC investigator working a State Department leak case in the post-Reagan capital. Sharp regional texture.

  • Bear Hug by Jerome Doolittle review. The 3rd Tim Lyon mystery. A Maine-set congressional-staffer murder and the DC press corps closing in. Sharp regional intelligence work.

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