In my last post, under the subject heading "Re: The 150 Best
Hardboiled/Noir 1929-69" I provided a couple of quotes from
Jonathan Gash's PEARLHANGER (the 9th in his Lovejoy series).
Others in the series include THE VATICAN RIP, FIREFLY
GADROON, and JADE WOMAN.
My hope in doing this was to bring some attention to Gash's
work as I think it is much overlooked and under appreciated
in noir/hardboiled circles. As such, from my point of view,
it is disappointing that there isn't more wriiten about
Gash's work. The only document I could find was an a fairly
interesting article in an old issue of THE ARMCHAIR
DECTETCTIVE.
Any self-respecting literary genre, or intellectual
discipline for that matter, needs an occasional dose of
self-reflection/re-evaluation and Gash, I think, provides one
such dose for hardboiled/noir.
I should point out that although I am quite aware of Gash's
other work, such as his Dr. Clare Burtonall series, I have
yet to read any of them.
However, I do plan
on doing so in the near future.
Thanks for letting me ramble on about this!
Best, Harry
Quoting jsbuturn <
ishantriv@rediffmail.com>:
> After consuming almost anything and everything from
Norbert Davies to
> Charles Willeford, I have been looking for writers
who are almost never
> mentioned in checklists or top 100 kind of lists.
Paul Meskil's 'Sin
> Pit' published by Lion Books in '60 is one such
author and book. Can
> someone recommend me others?
>
>
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