The main characters of Loin’s novels are the private detective Albert Sampson and Lieutenant Leroy Powder of the Indianapolis police. Sampson and Powder know each other and, gladly giving the main role to someone else in the next novel, happily take on the secondary parts. They don’t impress with “toughness”—Sampson doesn’t even have a revolver, and Powder doesn’t use his fists on any occasion—but no one will doubt that they are real men. In his detective stories, Loin writes with an ironic smile about people who are easy to recognize and believable. And readers familiar with modern crimes and the total criminalization of society will appreciate the likable heroes of Loin’s novels and get a bit of rest in his almost cozy world.