True, Streeter is almost a superman in his shooting and fighting, but the sex wasn't graphic at all.
Mark
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> From: BaxDeal@aol.com
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:53:13 -0400
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: trying to find a detective series from the 1980's
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> In a message dated 6/29/09 1:45:56 PM, DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net writes:
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> > That cover sounds familiar, but I can't quite place it. It made me think
> > of those to the Streeter novels by Michael Stone, which were kinda like a
> > mix between Paul Cadmus or Thomas Hart Benton and Edward Hopper (though not
> > nearly as good as any of those master painters). But they were '90s books
> > and I just looked and there isn't a knife-throwing cover.
> > The Trace books were kinda sleazy, but I remember them just having print
> > covers, clearly based on the earlier Fletch covers. The Bennett novels also
> > had tame covers.
> >
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> the Streeters aren't particularly salacious to my recollection. certainly
> not like say, the Nick Carter, Killmaster series, which I used to read as a
> youngster just for the dirty parts
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> John Lau
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