Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: occult PIs

From: John Armstrong ( pachuco@telus.net)
Date: 10 Jun 2008


Thanks - more for the pile.

J

Kat Richardson wrote:
>
> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com>, John Armstrong <pachuco@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Kat - I'll look for Shetterly.
>
> I forgot an earlier work of his: FINDER which is set in Teri
> Windling's Nevernever universe, about a guy with a psychic power to
> find lost things in a borderland between the land of Faery and the
> Realm of Men. Sometimes the lost things don't want to be found and
> the feel of this particular book in the series is definitely bleak PI
> stuff.
>
> And Simon Green's Nightside books are kind of in a similar vein, but
> considerably more hardboiled than most--about an investigator who
> works in the the "square mile of Hell" in an occult-ridden London.
>
> >
> > BTW, M W Wellman's name came up in a recent post and that got me on -
> > don't ask how my brain works - a jag about three-name authors and pulp,
> > and the first that came to mine was Robert Leslie Bellem.
> > I thought his stuff was dreadful, but it had an outrageous,
> over-the-top
> > charm regardless. At least it did 30 years ago, when I last read any of
> > his stories.
> >
>
> I think I've missed those altogether, or read them so long ago I've
> forgotten--as you can see, I have a bit of a Swiss cheese memory.... ;)
>
> --
> Kat Richardson
> http://katrichardson.com/ <http://katrichardson.com/>
>
>

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