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RE: RARA-AVIS: Re: Healy
I've seen the Daly and Gardner volumes, but not the others. Thanks for
the list--I'll keep a lookout for them.
I've never really cared for Daly's Race Williams stories, but I have
enjoyed Gardner's non-Perry Mason tales that I've read. As the the
series' weak performance, as described by Weinberg, maybe the packaging
had something to do with it. The covers seemed to be aimed at readers
who are already familiar with pulp writing. Maybe if the books (cover
art and such) were positioned to appeal to the broader base of mystery
readers, sales might have been a bit better? Just an uninformed
supposition.--Duane
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>From: DOUGLAS GREENE[SMTP:dgg100f@hamlet.bal.odu.edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 1997 11:11 AM
>To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
>Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: Healy
>
>May I (independently) agree with Jerry Healy that all Rara-Avis-ians
>should read his Cuddy series. Beautifully written, well plotted, and
>much better Boston than Parker's Spencer!
>
>Several people mentioned Pronzini and Muller. Neither is really
>noir, and they're not always as heavily boiled as those of you who read
>Jim Thompson or James Elroy might prefer. But both Pronzini and
>Muller are excellernt writers, and (as one of you said) Pronzini's SHACKLES
>is
>one of the best PI novels ever.
>
>Some time ago, there was a brief discussion of the pulp writer
>Frederick Nebel. I agree that he was one of the best of the breed.
>A few years ago, when Otto still ran Mysterious Press, a series
>called "Dime detective Classics" was issued in trade paperback; they
>were edited by Bob Weinberg, though I don't believe the books
>themselves credited him. Authors were Carroll John daly (2 volumes), Hank
>Searls, Erle Stanley Gardner, Norbert davis, and
>Frederick Nebel--the latter with THE ADVENTURES OF CARDIGAN.
>Weinbereg told me that the series didn't sell well--under 1500
>copies each. But copies must be available from dealers and used
>bookeries--and some libraries (I had the Old Dominion Unviersity
>Library order them).
>
>Doug
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