While MANHUNT staggered into the latter '60s as a shadow of
its early-mid-'50s glory, one digest founded in 1956, along
with HITCHCOCK'S, managed to contribute consistently, if not
consistently in its quality, to HB fiction until the
early-mid-'80s...MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE (for most of
its run, MICHAEL SHAYNE and other small changes beforehand),
and its several Renown sibling magazines. Some members of
this list, and certainly not a few of their friends, used
MSMM as a salvage market and a training ground. Certainly
when I began reading cf digests in the '70s, I may've found a
higher standard of literature in both EQMM and AHMM, but
enjoyed the earthiness and lack of self-censorship in SHAYNE.
HARDBOILED and the lamented BLUE MURDER can remind one of
MSMM, but I still miss it.
But since you're a collector, Rich, have you picked up issues
MYSTERY BOOK or ED MCBAIN'S MYSTERY BOOK, or the many direct
imitators of MANHUNT?
Then there was that fine revival of BLACK MASK in
digest-sized paperback... TM
-----Original Message----- From:
Moorich2@aol.com [mailto:
Moorich2@aol.com] As the recovery is slow, I am at home
with lots more reading time. Unfortunately, it is difficult
to manage hardbacks unless I am seated at a table. Paperbacks
are better but best of all for one-handed holding are
the
digest magazines. As the painkillers I am still on make
lengthy concentration difficult, I am better off reading
short stories anyway. Thankfully, I have many digests both
recent as well as back to the 1940s.
"Manhunt" was, of course, the digest of greatest interest to
this list as the focus was very much on the hard
boiled.
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