RARA-AVIS: Whittington

James & Livia Reasoner (liviajames@itexas.net)
Wed, 13 Aug 1997 07:08:17 -0500 Doug Levin asked for some Harry Whittington recommendations. Well, Doug,
how much time ya got?

My favorite Whittington novel is _A Woman Possessed_, published by Beacon
Books under the pseudonym Whit Harrison. Despite the soap opera-ish title,
it's a very hardboiled story. Another Beacon as by Whit Harrison, _Strip
the Town Naked_, is very good. _The Humming Box_, an Ace Double, is
excellent. As for Whittington's Gold Medals, they're all good. I
especially like _Backwoods Tramp_, _Brute in Brass_, _God's Back Was
Turned_, and _Web of Murder_. There are probably others I'm forgetting.
_The Devil Has Wings_, which was reprinted by Black Lizard, is very good.
Whittington's first mystery, _Slay Ride for a Lady_, originally published
by Harlequin and later reprinted by Berkley, has some great scenes in it,
though it doesn't all hold together.

You mentioned Whittington's Man From U.N.C.L.E. novel. He also wrote some
of the U.N.C.L.E. novellas in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Magazine as Robert
Hart Davis. The best of these is "The Ghost Riders Affair". If you like
Westerns, Whittington's _Saddle the Storm_ is an exceptional one. And all
of this just scratches the surface of his writings. He's one of my
all-time favorites, and I've never read a Whittington novel that wasn't at
the very least entertaining.

James Reasoner
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