The following is an interview with journalist and author Lou Aguilar about his new novel “The Washington Trail: A Slade and Cork Mystery.”
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Daily Wire: Lou, how long did it take you to write “The Washington Trail” and what sort of process do you use as a writer?
Lou Aguilar: Two years. It was my first tough guy mystery novel, although I love the genre and its icons — Hammett, Chandler, Spillane, Fleming, and Andrew Klavan, the modern master of the milieu. What I learned was that, unlike my three other novels, I had to do far more than advance the story with style. I had to leave clues that the reader could absorb leading up to the denouement and they had to be fair and not out of nowhere like “The butler did it.” I had intended to move to my Great Hollywood Novel next, but the publisher of “The Washington Trail,” Aethon Books, asked me to do two more Slade-Cork…
