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Mike Faraday
Night Frost
American private investigator Mike Faraday thought he’d manage to escape the slog of detective work waiting for him in downton L.A. when he jets off to the Bahamas.
But that dream is shattered when he finds a body dumped on the beach in front of him.
Quickly, he becomes embroiled in the violent Mafia underworld, taking a few batterings along the way and meeting some men, and some women, that tend to get your blood boiling.
Follow Mike Faraday as he navigates this precarious illicit gangland and tries to get to the bottom of the hideous crime that has begun to haunt his darkest hours.
Night Frost is a fast-moving crime thriller featuring Mike Faraday, the gritty detective who makes his living the hard way in downtown L.A. Faraday’s sardonic humor and way with the ladies lend an authenticity to this story and the mystery only gets more and more twisted the more Faraday discovers.
But that dream is shattered when he finds a body dumped on the beach in front of him.
Quickly, he becomes embroiled in the violent Mafia underworld, taking a few batterings along the way and meeting some men, and some women, that tend to get your blood boiling.
Follow Mike Faraday as he navigates this precarious illicit gangland and tries to get to the bottom of the hideous crime that has begun to haunt his darkest hours.
Night Frost is a fast-moving crime thriller featuring Mike Faraday, the gritty detective who makes his living the hard way in downtown L.A. Faraday’s sardonic humor and way with the ladies lend an authenticity to this story and the mystery only gets more and more twisted the more Faraday discovers.
192 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 1996
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About the author
Basil Copper
185 books41 followersBasil Copper was an English writer and former journalist and newspaper editor. He has written over 50 books and scripts. In addition to fantasy and horror, Copper is known for his series of Solar Pons stories continuing the character created by August Derleth.
Copper edited a 1982 two-volume omnibus collection of Derleth's stories of the 'Pontine' canon, published by Arkham House, a publishing firm founded by Derleth himself and chiefly publishing weird fiction (such as Cthulhu Mythos tales); in that edition, Copper "edited" most of the tales in ways that many Pontine aficionados found objectionable[citation needed]. A later omnibus, The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition, was issued in 2000 under the imprint of Mycroft & Moran (a name which is itself a Holmesian jest).
He also wrote the long-running hard-boiled detective stories of "Mike Faraday" (58 novels from 1966 to 1988).
Copper has received many honours in recent years. In 1979, the Mark Twain Society of America elected him a Knight of Mark Twain for his outstanding "contribution to modern fiction", while the Praed Street Irregulars have twice honoured him for his work on the Solar Pons series. He has been a member of the Crime Writer's Association for over thirty years, serving as chairman in 1981/82 and on its committee for a total of seven years.
In early 2008, a bio-bibliography was published on him: Basil Copper: A Life in Books, compiled and edited by Stephen Jones.
In March 2010, Darkness, Mist and Shadow: The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper was launched at the Brighton World Horror Convention as a two-volume set by PS Publishing.
Copper edited a 1982 two-volume omnibus collection of Derleth's stories of the 'Pontine' canon, published by Arkham House, a publishing firm founded by Derleth himself and chiefly publishing weird fiction (such as Cthulhu Mythos tales); in that edition, Copper "edited" most of the tales in ways that many Pontine aficionados found objectionable[citation needed]. A later omnibus, The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition, was issued in 2000 under the imprint of Mycroft & Moran (a name which is itself a Holmesian jest).
He also wrote the long-running hard-boiled detective stories of "Mike Faraday" (58 novels from 1966 to 1988).
Copper has received many honours in recent years. In 1979, the Mark Twain Society of America elected him a Knight of Mark Twain for his outstanding "contribution to modern fiction", while the Praed Street Irregulars have twice honoured him for his work on the Solar Pons series. He has been a member of the Crime Writer's Association for over thirty years, serving as chairman in 1981/82 and on its committee for a total of seven years.
In early 2008, a bio-bibliography was published on him: Basil Copper: A Life in Books, compiled and edited by Stephen Jones.
In March 2010, Darkness, Mist and Shadow: The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper was launched at the Brighton World Horror Convention as a two-volume set by PS Publishing.
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October 31, 2016
Mike and his secretary/girlfriend are taking a long vacation in the Bahamas. There's nothing like sitting on the beach under the sun, listening to the surf, watching the blond in a polka dot bikini and two men dumping a body.
What? Wait a sec! A body? Even though Mike is on vacation, his blood heats up at the thought of a new case. There were two men heaving a body off their boat ... two men that Mike swears he knows from Chicago.
It's another fast-paced adventure for Mike and another well-written story by this author. This was first published in 1966, so the reader has to depend on solving the case without forensic help.. no DNA... not even a cell phone to call anyone.
There's a lot of excitement... everything from buried treasure to death by piranha fish... from thugs to mysterious strangers... from fights to more fights.
This is a fast, easy read and Mike is a great character with a mouth that either gets him out of trouble ... or in more trouble than he knows what to do with. Stella is the easy-going secretary/girlfriend who worries about him, but she always has his back.
Many thanks to Endeavour Press and Netgalley who provided a digital copy. All opinions expressed are my own.
What? Wait a sec! A body? Even though Mike is on vacation, his blood heats up at the thought of a new case. There were two men heaving a body off their boat ... two men that Mike swears he knows from Chicago.
It's another fast-paced adventure for Mike and another well-written story by this author. This was first published in 1966, so the reader has to depend on solving the case without forensic help.. no DNA... not even a cell phone to call anyone.
There's a lot of excitement... everything from buried treasure to death by piranha fish... from thugs to mysterious strangers... from fights to more fights.
This is a fast, easy read and Mike is a great character with a mouth that either gets him out of trouble ... or in more trouble than he knows what to do with. Stella is the easy-going secretary/girlfriend who worries about him, but she always has his back.
Many thanks to Endeavour Press and Netgalley who provided a digital copy. All opinions expressed are my own.
December 11, 2017
PI against wannabe Bond villain in the Bahamas
This was my first Basil Copper book. It is written in the first person hardboiled style of its time (with the colorful descriptions of the women Faraday keeps running into that would not fly these days) but the story is more of an exotic adventure complete with a doomed femme fatale plus an arch villain and his henchmen (the villain even concocts an overly impractical scheme for killing the hero in the classic James Bond tradition).
This was my first Basil Copper book. It is written in the first person hardboiled style of its time (with the colorful descriptions of the women Faraday keeps running into that would not fly these days) but the story is more of an exotic adventure complete with a doomed femme fatale plus an arch villain and his henchmen (the villain even concocts an overly impractical scheme for killing the hero in the classic James Bond tradition).
June 9, 2017
Basil Copper published 52 Mike Faraday PI novels, basing his detective in Los Angeles. This book takes Faraday away from the gritty city and neon avenues to a vacation in the Bahamas - a vacation with his secretary, Stella. Amidst the sun and the surf, Faraday isn't bored. How could he be when the femme fatales are blondes in polka dot bikinis? And dead men start turning up on beaches?
This is a terrific, fast reading adventure that starts out languid like a Caribbean afternoon but really picks up in intensity through the the book with plenty of intrigue, adventure, fights, hoods, mysterious strangers, and even buried treasure.
This is a terrific, fast reading adventure that starts out languid like a Caribbean afternoon but really picks up in intensity through the the book with plenty of intrigue, adventure, fights, hoods, mysterious strangers, and even buried treasure.
May 30, 2018
This is a spoof of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. Faraday is on vacation in the Caribbean with his secretary when he finds a dead body and is asked by the local police to assist. Earlier low rating was due to the difficulty with the selection on Kindle which needs more space between choices.
June 29, 2008
06/29/08
TITLE/AUTHOR: NIGHT FROST by Basil Copper
RATING: 4/B
GENRE/PUB DATE/# OF PGS: Mystery/1966/192 pgs
SERIES/STAND ALONE: #2 PI Mike Farrady
TIME/PLACE: 1960's/Bahamas
CHARACTERS: Mike Farrady/PI
FIRST LINES: I sat back in a cane chair, finished off the tall drink in the ice-cold glass & adjusted my straw hat to a finer angle over my eyes. This was as good as it was ever likely to be, I reflected, peeking at white sand, combing green & white sea & striped sunshades, from beneath my lowered lids.
COMMENTS: library book. Fun book. Mike Farrady & his secretary are vacationing in the Bahamas. Enjoying the laid-back lifestyle untile a dead body is found... frozen. The temps barely dip below 85, the body had to be refrigerated somewhere on the island. Farrady gets involved helping the local police.
TITLE/AUTHOR: NIGHT FROST by Basil Copper
RATING: 4/B
GENRE/PUB DATE/# OF PGS: Mystery/1966/192 pgs
SERIES/STAND ALONE: #2 PI Mike Farrady
TIME/PLACE: 1960's/Bahamas
CHARACTERS: Mike Farrady/PI
FIRST LINES: I sat back in a cane chair, finished off the tall drink in the ice-cold glass & adjusted my straw hat to a finer angle over my eyes. This was as good as it was ever likely to be, I reflected, peeking at white sand, combing green & white sea & striped sunshades, from beneath my lowered lids.
COMMENTS: library book. Fun book. Mike Farrady & his secretary are vacationing in the Bahamas. Enjoying the laid-back lifestyle untile a dead body is found... frozen. The temps barely dip below 85, the body had to be refrigerated somewhere on the island. Farrady gets involved helping the local police.
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