“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” — Albert Camus

There is, by chance, quite a lot of existentialism in One O’clock Jump. Camus would approve of that. Several people are reading Kafka’s The Trial during the book. At Bouchercon once I heard Walter Mosley speak about existentialism in the crime novel, and it struck me down like thunder. Oh, yes, I wanted to say! So Camus, another existentialist, would love a good ’30s crime novel, with death, and life, and war, and swing music. Don’t you think?