<<What's in the Shell Scott sampler?>>
It contains five short stories. Pocket Books 1969. They are
funny and
entertaining stories - not very deep or artistic but
fun.
<<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.>>
I have found excellent obscure stuff at estate sales around
here. The
Henry Kane and Frank Kane novels were owned by an old lady
who passed
away last year. I didn't ask if her name was Kane.
<<John D. MacDonald's Gold Medal books aren't hard to
find here, but
I've never seen a Gruber book.>>
The Gruber Westerns apparently were quite popular, at least
in the US. I
have ten of them, all paperback reprints or originals. I
found them all
at second-hand stores and yard sales over the years. He wrote
many more,
and I always keep an eye out for them.
<<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.>>
Didn't the other Charles Williams write about philosophy and
religion?
One time a bookseller directed me to that section when I
asked about a
Williams title.
By the way, I just ribbing you a bit about prohibiting
discussions of
Gruber. The Quade stories are not very hardboiled, though,
and wouldn't
really belong in a discussion of that subgenre. They are
humorous tales
of classical detection with no pretense of realism.
Regards,
Mario Taboada
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