"An Honest Living" by Dwyer Murphy

Dwyer Murphy believes he has the dream job: "I get to read crime fiction all day long."As the editor of the CrimeReads website, a site that , as the title might imply, brokers a wide variety of criminal literature, book and movie reviews, profiles and feature articles on such subjects as the role of cheese in murder mysteries or a look at the works of TV producer Quinn Martin ("Fugitive," "Streets of San Francisco" and "The FBI") who had a primetime show on television for 21 straight years.Now Murphy has a book out, the novel, "An Honest Living," which calls on his lawyer background (before he took on the crime website five years ago), the city of New York (his home), book collectors and elements of film noir.He told Steve Tarter that it was important to include Jean-Pierre Melville's "Army of Shadows," the classic 1969 film noir about the French Revolution, in his book because "everyone I ran into for a two week period in New York back in 2006 was either coming from or going to see 'Army,' a film just released in the United States that year."I know that not everybody was concerned with French noir but it seemed like it at the time. My father came down from Boston to see that movie with me," he said.Murphy tosses out the possibility of running an all-inclusive noir list on CrimeReads that would blend books, movies, TV shows and other forms of media.Meanwhile, he plans on more books, including a sequel to "Honest Living" set in Miami.