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Re: RARA-AVIS: Introduction (and Hammett comic strip)



On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, DOUGLAS GREENE wrote:

Welcome to the list.

: ... Dennis McMillan plans to publish Howard Browne's complete pulp
: detective stories under the title INCREDIBLE INK this Spring, in
: honor of Browne's 90th birthday.  He is best known for his Paul Pine
: novels, which are often considered very much in the Chandler-Ross
: Macdonald tradition.

It's funny people should mention Browne today.  Last night I finished
the book I was reading and looked over my hardboiled case, and found a
couple of his I hadn't read.  I pulled down _Halo in Brass_, and it's
really good.  Paul Pine is hired by the parents of a girl who moved
from Nebraska to Chicago and then disappeared.  Within a day he's met
a mannish-looking woman who runs a whorehouse and found his bellboy
with his head smashed in.  It's very entertaining.  I'm looking
forward to picking up his other books.  Nice to hear Browne is still
alive, and didn't die young or go nuts.

Slang time:  what is a "B-girl?"  A woman in a bar who entices men into
buying more drinks, while she drinks coloured water?  Its she
necessarily a prostitute?  Would you only find her where prostitutes
were around?


Bill
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Toronto, Canada                   <-- I'm not at io.org any more.
http://www.vex.net/~buff/         Caveat lector.

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