Bob Toomey (btoomey@javanet.com)
Fri, 31 Dec 1999 23:40:23 +0000
Kevin Burton Smith wrote:
> Michael Collins
> Stephen Greenleaf
> Neil Albert
> Norbert Davis
> Bill Pronzini
I'm glad to see Norbert Davis on somebody's list. I
considered putting him on mine -- I've had so many second and
third thoughts about this damn list -- but it's just too hard
to find his work. It would be a great service to everyone if
his Doan and Carstairs stories were reprinted. They'd fit
comfortably in a single volume: two novelets, "Cry Murder"
and "Holocaust House"; and three fairly short novels: SALLY'S
IN THE ALLEY, THE MOUSE IN THE MOUNTAIN and OH, MURDERER
MINE. These are some of the best HB comedies ever written,
about Doan, a slightly sleezy babyfaced conman PI and
Carstairs, the pedigreed great Dane he won in a card game.
The great Dane, having some class, is rather ashamed to be
seen with a lowlife like his new master. Way overdue for
reprinting. Are you listening, Dennis McMillan?
BobT
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