Afterword The Drinking Life
“An amazing man is Milo March, the insurance investigator who solves the most complicated crimes while imbibing an inordinate amount of alcohol, which at no time seems to slow down his thinking or his muscles.” —Amarillo Globe-Times
In a review of The Flaming Man, Steve Lewis writes in his Mystery File blog that “if you cut out the references to drinking, the book would be at least 20 pages shorter. Milo March is one of those guys who could really put it away. For breakfast, lunch, dinner, bedtime and every other half hour in between, another drink. From one bar to another, it seems, nonstop.”
A more literary comment about the same book comes from mystery historian Mike Grost: “Whenever Milo March wants to interview a suspect, or track down a clue, he goes t
