Re: RARA-AVIS: Mysteries That Bloom in Spring

From: Ed Lynskey ( e_lynskey@yahoo.com)
Date: 02 Aug 2007


Harold Q. Masur living in Florida recently passed away. His books are fun reads.

Ed

--- Joy Matkowski < jmatkowski1@comcast.net> wrote:

> I'm not familiar with the ex-cons or with Hallahan, Winslow,
> Salisbury, or
> Coltrane, but I know the names of the rest. Not that many are
> the kinds of
> books discussed here.
> Joy
>
> Gonzalo Baeza asked:
>
>
> > This is an interesting Time article from 1978 on new trends
> and names
> > in mystery fiction. It's funny how parts of it read like
> they were
> > written in 2007, especially the arguments about the critics'
> disdain
> > for crime fiction (not that they were new in 1978, anyway).
> >
> > I found the list of books and writers to watch pretty
> interesting and I
> > wonder how it's held up in time. What does everyone think?
> Myself, I'd
> > never heard of at least half the books on it.

       
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