Joe Gores
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"Joseph Nicholas "Joe" Gores" was an American Mystery fiction/mystery writer. He was known best for his novels and short stories set in San Francisco and featuring the fictional "Dan Kearney and Associates" (the "DKA Files") private investigation firm specializing in repossessing cars, a thinly veiled escalation of his own experiences as a confidential sleuth and repo man. Gores was also recognized for his novels Hammett (1975; made into the 1982 film Hammett (film)/Hammett), Spade & Archer (the 2009 prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon (novel)/The Maltese Falcon) and his Edgar Award-winning or -nominated works, such as A Time of Predators, 32 Cadillacs and Come Morning.

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Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

A detective digs around in the garbage of people's lives. A novelist invents people and then digs around in their garbage.