Well, I've checked out his newsletter, and I'm happy to
report it's
cat-free! And it looks like there's a collection of stories
featuring
Keller, Block's ambivalent hitman, coming out, for those of
you who may
have missed them in Playboy. (So, if the old pulp writers
aspired to the
"slicks", like the Saturday Evening Post et al., do AHMM and
EQMM writers
aspire to Playboy?) An interesting notion-girlie mags as the
last refuge of
mass market hardboiled crime fiction. I know many of the
Cliff Hardy
stories by Peter Corris were originally published in the
Australian
Penthouse, and Playboy here regularly publishes Block and
Donald Westlake
stories.
I know there are other, more specialized crime mags out there
(Hardboiled,
New Mystery, etc.), but the only other mass market "slick" I
can think of,
besides the skin mags, is Mary Higgins Clark's Mystery Mag,
which has (had?
is it still being published?) some good stuff.
Kevin Smith
Web & Graphic Design
mailto:kvnsmith@total.net
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