Bob Toomey (btoomey@javanet.com)
Wed, 08 Dec 1999 22:44:57 -0500
Juri Nummelin wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Bob Toomey wrote:
>
> > STRONGARM is also very good. THE NAME OF THE
GAME IS DEATH, the first
> > book in the Drake series, is a mean little
classic in its own right. In
> > fact, I doubt Marlowe intended it to be a
series, given the ending.
>
> I read somewhere that it was Fawcett who forced
Marlowe to revive Drake
> and make him something like a international spy. And
the books Marlowe
> wrote according to this scheme aren't anything close
to "The Name of the
> Game".
You've got that right. I'd rate "The Name" his best book, and
put it high on the list of great hardboiled crime
novels.
BobT
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