I also picked up a Gold Medal, No Business for a Lady by
James L. Rubel.
The cover's great: "Meet Miss Donovan, the only private eye
who wears
mascara. She's easily the most beautiful shamus living."
Didn't Honey
West wear mascara? True, Honey wasn't around in 1950 when
this book was
first published, but this is a 1958 reprint, a year after
This Girl for
Hire, but which time it was on its third reprint. as a matter
of fact,
given the timing, I bet this was reissued to try to ride on
Honey's
coat-tails.
And a few I picked up at the Goodwill Book Sale a few weeks
ago:
Sympathy for the Devil by Kent Anderson; Mission for
Vengeance by Peter
Rabe; The Day of the Peppercorn Kill by John Wainwright; and
On the Yard
by Malcolm Braly. All of these are names I've seen bandied
about here.
The only one I had read anything by was Peter Rabe, one of
his Black
Lizard reprints, Kill the Boss Good-by, I think. I also got
The Man Who
Played Thief by Don Smith, never heard of it, but like I have
said
before, I am a sucker for a caper.
Mark
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