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Article: VERMONT Novelist seeks out `the real stuff' His beat is the region's gritty, darker side
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 16, 1995
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BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- Archer Mayor is just back from a
reconaissance mission. He heard a state wildlife expert tell road
crew workers, who frequently come in contact with injured animals and
road meat, about the dangers of rabies.
For Mayor, it was another immersion in what he calls "the real
stuff" that he uses in his increasingly popular detective novels,
whose main characters are a Brattleboro cop named Joe Gunther and
this funky town.
Mayor's Vermont is not the land of maple syrup, pious and wise
Yankees and pristine snows. Here, a headless corpse leaves an
incomplete angel in fresh snow. An old pharmacist cavorts with a
young, part-time prostitute. Murder and rape are vicious and often ...