Doug,
Re your speculation below:
> It also occurred to me that JDM's real influence
has
> played out not in hardboiled novels so much as,
of
> all
> things, horror books. By way of Stephen King
and
> Dean
> Koontz, I suspect, both of whom are JDM fans.
Hell,
> THE STAND is almost "JDM writes THE LORD OF
THE
> RINGS".
King once was a surprise guest at a Bouchercon at which JDM
was the GOH. He spoke of what a great influence JDM had been
and apparently considered JDM as something of a mentor.
JIM DOHERTY
__________________________________________________ Do You
Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com
-- # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 26 Aug 2002 EDT