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Re: RARA-AVIS: Michael Collins/Japanese hardboiled fiction



Speaking of the most knowledgaeble guys in mysterdom, Jiro Kimura is 
certainly at the top.  My blushes, Watson (I would have said, 
"Spade," but I don't recall blushes in connection with him), Jiro is 
quite correct about the date of Michael Collins's first book.

I know of only one short story collection by  Day Keene. This Is Murder, Mr. Herbert, and Other Stories.  New York:
Avon paperback #159, 1948.  I agree that he was an inconsistent 
writer, but at his best he was quite good.  Incidentally, Talmage 
Powell told me that there was a large group of pulp and paperback 
original writers living on or near Pass-a-Grille island, Florida, off 
St. Petersburg, during the 1950's.  The group included Powell, 
Frederick C. Davis, John D. MacDonald, and Day Keene.  (MacDonald 
later moved to the Sarasota area, and Powell is, I think, in the 
Carolinas.)  I was interested to hear this because I grew up on Pass-a-Grille, and recall a girl telling me 35 
or 40 years ago that her stepfather wrote mysteries.  I'm now sure 
the writer was Fred Davis.

Doug
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