Re: RARA-AVIS: Markham by Block

blumenidiot (blumenidiot@email.msn.com)
Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:42:39 -0600 Ted,
I found two copies of Power Play in two weeks, but I think it's very hard to
find. The title of the fourth Holt book is The Fourth Dimension is Death.
I've been told it never came out in pb. IMO the books are not nearly as good
as Block's lighter Chip Harrison, Tanner or Burglar series. My impression
is that Westlake dislikes them so because he just churned them to please a
publisher. If you haven't done so try reading his A Likely Story to gain
his views about publishing. I've read the first three only because I tend
to try to read everything I can find by my favorite authors. I think the
best word to describe them is BLAH. They don't have the edge his Stark or
Coe books have, nor are they particularly funny as are like most of his
other stuff.
Mark Blumenthal

>I am indebted for the news that Westlake was Timothy J. Culver; I'll
>have to look for that. And while I have the first three Sam Holt
>books (which read more like Block than Westlake, oddly enough), I
>missed the fourth. I assume it has "4" in its title, but what is
>that title?
>
>--Ted White
>
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