I just ran across a listing for what may be a new book by Geoffrey O'Brien, that chronicler of the hard-boiled. It is titled HARDBOILED AMERICA: LURID PAPERBACKS AND THE MASTERS OF NOIR. It is published by Da Capo Press in 1997, and costs $16.95. ISBN is 0-306-80773-4. Is this indeed a new book or a retitled version of his earlier HARDBOILED AMERICA: THE LURID YEARS OF PAPERBACKS published in 1981, I believe (which is an excellent book)? I'm going to order it. Richard King - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca