Tight Like That

Susan McKnight is an administrator of the Courts Technology Integrated Justice Project at the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General.

Whether set in the Depression years or in more recent times, the stories
in this collection deal with the same class of characters: drunks who
really know how to drink; shady ladies who know how to get their man,
dead or alive; and private detectives who stop at nothing to solve a
case. In stories averaging between 10 and 12 pages, Christy treats
murder and mayhem with a sharpness that grabs your attention and holds
you right to the very last word. His characters are earthy and quite
often unlucky, but that doesn’t stop them from living life to the
fullest. There is an intelligence and razor-sharp wit in the way Christy
deals with his rough-and-tumble characters that smacks of Raymond
Chandler and Dorothy Sayers. He can transform the most unlikely people
into heroes and make the seamier side of society appear not so bad after
all.

Christy has written 20 books, ranging from poetry to travel literature
to biography, including his masterpiece, The Long Slow Death of Jack
Kerouac.