I attended a book signing and reading for the newly released comic mystery novel Pick Up at Union Station last night at The Tattered Cover Bookstore on East Colfax Avenue here in Denver. It is the 10th book in a series about Denver cab driver Brendan Murphy (Murph) written by Gary Reilly. However, Reilly passed away in 2011 and never had anything published during his lifetime. Running Meter Press publisher Mark Stevens started publishing the series after Reilly's death, and they are now a local success. Stevens (top photo), as well as family friend and Denver politician Dennis Gallagher (bottom photograph) read from the works and sung their praises. It seems very unfair that Reilly never got to enjoy this new-found success during his lifetime. It was the same with Stieg Larsson, author of the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series, and John Kennedy Toole, author of A Confederacy of Dunces. Life can be so unfair. Is it better to be a dead success or a live failure? Ah, those philosophical questions can be tough to answer.
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