Re: Who's Harold Adams? (was Re: RARA-AVIS: Clancy)

Diane Trap (trap@rhett.libs.uga.edu)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 10:25:46 -0400 (EDT) > Harold Adams is a veteran writer (now in his mid seventies) who has
> written a wonderful series of hardboiled novels featuring Carl Wilcox,
> an ex-cop turned itinerant worker-bum-detective in the Midwest. These
> stories take place in the thirties, an era that is beautifully and
> laconically evoked by Adams.
>
> By way of incipit, here is the opening of his _A Perfectly Proper
> Murder_, the most recent one I've read (I think there are two more):

Yes, they are wonderful, and the good news is there's more than two--
following is a list pulled from Books in Print and hastily edited (so
there may be errors). In the case of multiple editions I went with the
earliest, so what's actually available at the book stores may vary.

-----Diane Trap
trap@rhett.libs.uga.edu

The Man Who Was Taller Than God | Adams, Harold | New York : |
Walker Publishing Company | Expected (YYMM) : 9809

No Gun, No Badge | Adams, Harold | New York : | Walker Publishing
Company | Expected (YYMM) : 9810

The Naked Liar | Adams, Harold | New York : | Warner Books,
Incorporated, | June 1986

When Rich Men Die | Adams, Harold | New York : | Doubleday &
Company, Incorporated, | May 1987

The Ice Pick Artist: A Carl Wilcox Mystery | Adams, Harold |
New York : | Walker Publishing Company, | Nov. 1997

The Late Town Cop: A Carl Wilcox Mystery | Adams, Harold |
New York : | Walker & Company, | Oct. 1996

The Ditched Blonde: A Carl Wilcox Mystery | Adams, Harold |
New York : | Walker Publishing Company, | Sept. 1995

A Way with Widows | Adams, Harold | New York : | Walker
Publishing Company, | Sept. 1994

A Perfectly Proper Murder: A Carl Wilcox Mystery | Adams,
Harold | New York : | Walker Publishing Company, | Sept. 1993

Paint the Town Red | Adams, Harold | New York : | Mysterious
Press, | May 1988

Murder | Adams, Harold | New York : | Ace Books, | Jan. 1983

The Missing Moon | Adams, Harold | New York : | Warner Books,
Incorporated, | Oct. 1988

The Man Who Missed the Party: A Carol Wilcox Mystery | Adams,
Harold | New York : | Mysterious Press, | May 1989

The Man Who Met the Train | Adams, Harold | New York : | Mysterious
Press, | May 1989

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