Re: RARA-AVIS: Henry / Frank Kane

Gary Warren Niebuhr (piesbook@execpc.com)
Fri, 17 Oct 1997 06:42:12 -0700 > All of these authors wrote pretty standard '50s PI stories (the 'generic
>PI' Pronzini refered to), and seem all but forgotten these days, except
>for a handful of PI aficionados like me :-) . IMHO, Henry Kane was the
>best of the three. Are there any other forgotten long-series writers like
>those ? Gary ?

As long as you asked, my opinion is the Frank is better than Henry. Henry
was full of himself, and made his character that way as well. Remember,
Henry's detective is so sophisticated that he calls himself a "private
richard."

As to the other long forgotten from the same period, I would like to
nominate Wade Miller, Bart Spicer and Norbert Davis.

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