: Given Captain Bill's recently promulgated mission
statement, I
: absolutely cannot talk about Frank Gruber's unforgettable
stories
: featuring Oliver Quade, "The Human Encyclopedia" - surely
one of the
: most bizarre and funniest characters from the pulps.
I didn't mean that; the list is meant to be the place to talk
about
hardboiled fiction and things related. Same as ever. Gruber's
other
writings certainly qualify. I meant to clarify that this
doesn't mean
we're going to start recommending serial killer books just
because
they seem grim.
What's in the Shell Scott sampler? And where do you find
these books
- just by poking around second-hand stores? Some folks on
this list
seem to be surrounded by excellent pickings. John D.
MacDonald's Gold
Medal books aren't hard to find here, but I've never seen a
Gruber
book. I do find Charles Williams books every so often, but
about half
the time it's the other Charles Williams, the English chap
who was
friends with C.S. Lewis or something like that.
Bill
--
William Denton | Toronto, Canada | http://www.vex.net/~buff/ | Caveat lector.
"Let's keep the party polite."
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