But I also wanted a sexier sort of detective, so a dark and brooding man, a little Mr. And I wanted action and a bit of adventure. I wanted a knight, because so many medieval mysteries were inhabited (pun intended) by clerical sleuths and I wanted someone completely different, someone who was used to fighting, to being his own man. Following the tropes of the hardboiled detective, he had to be a loner, down on his luck, hard drinking, hard fighting, tough talking-and a sucker for a dame in trouble. Once I had come up with the idea of a hardboiled kind of detective on the order of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe or Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade, he began to form more quickly. JW: I think he probably came from a lot of places, but he mostly formed when I decided what kind of medieval mystery I wanted to write. SAT: Crispin Guest is such a wonderful character! Where did he come from? Today I am pleased to present an interview with one of my favorite writers, Jeri Westerson, best known for her Crispin Guest medieval “noir” mysteries.
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