Bloodlist (1990)

by P. N. Elrod

Series: Vampire Files (1)

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Fantasy. Fiction. HTML: Flavoring the hard-boiled detective story with a taste of the supernatural, this is the first book in the highly entertaining Vampire Files series. "I've always had a weak spot for strange ladies. One very beautiful girl had even warned me that she was�get this�a vampire. But did I listen? No. "Before you know it, I'm being chased by an ugly thug with a gun, and a bullet blasts its way through my back, and�believe it or not�nothing happened. I survived! How? You guessed it. I, Jack Fleming, ace reporter, have been transformed into a vampire. "Which has its advantages. You never die, you never grow old, you sleep all day...and best of all, you can hunt down your own murderer." Being turned into a vampire takes some getting used to, and when an astute private investigator spots Jack during his transition period, he arranges a meeting and recruits him. Working together, they take on the criminal world and set out to catch Jack's killer. .… (more)

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Nicely written but not my cup of tea, more detective/crime than supernatural. (

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justgeekingby | Jun 6, 2023 |

I’ve been meaning to get to this for years, and I’m glad I took it for a spin. The reader, Barrett Whitener, was quite good, with the exception of the English accent he did for Escott. I didn’t have to speed it up much to get the flow I wanted.

This is a fun take on vampires, and I’m up for reading another. I love the buddy cop vibe Fleming has with Escott, the tough guy talk from the 30’s setting, and the neat powers Fleming has. For a vampire, he’s a pretty good egg. (

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Harks | Dec 17, 2022 |

A pretty traditional 1930s-era crime novel, with the twist that the protagonist is a vampire. (

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ssperson | Apr 3, 2021 |

written for the time period after the depression, a detective novel with a vamp twist. Not you typical Vamp book. It reads like the ol' gum shoe books, interesting and cunfusing because of the different type of living/speech then. The characters draw you into the story well and carry it well. (

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TheYodamom | Jan 29, 2016 |

This is a great series with the best of both worlds -- vampires & a hard boiled detective (

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Throughout the whole vast, shadowy world of ghosts and demons there is no figure so terrible, no figure so dreadful and abhorred, yet dight with such fearful fascination, as the vampire, who is himself neither ghost nor demon, but yet who partakes the dark natures and possesses the mysterious and terrible qualities of both. - Montague Summers
The Vampire: His Kith and Kin

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For Mark and Ben.

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The car was doing at least forty when the right front fender smashed against my left hip and sent me spinning off the road to flop bonelessly into a mass of thick, windblown grass.

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Fantasy. Fiction. HTML:

Flavoring the hard-boiled detective story with a taste of the supernatural, this is the first book in the highly entertaining Vampire Files series.

"I've always had a weak spot for strange ladies. One very beautiful girl had even warned me that she was�get this�a vampire. But did I listen? No.

"Before you know it, I'm being chased by an ugly thug with a gun, and a bullet blasts its way through my back, and�believe it or not�nothing happened. I survived! How? You guessed it. I, Jack Fleming, ace reporter, have been transformed into a vampire.

"Which has its advantages. You never die, you never grow old, you sleep all day...and best of all, you can hunt down your own murderer."

Being turned into a vampire takes some getting used to, and when an astute private investigator spots Jack during his transition period, he arranges a meeting and recruits him. Working together, they take on the criminal world and set out to catch Jack's killer.

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Bloodlist introduces Jack Fleming, an investigative journalist in Prohibition-era Chicago who got bitten by a vampire.

In Lifeblood and Bloodcircle Jack hunted for the men who killed him, and for his long-lost love, Maureen. Now, the original vampire-noir cult classics by P.N. Elrod are together for the first time in one volume-easier for fans to sink their teeth into.

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