Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Edward Aarons
Robert E. Skinner (rskinner@mail.xula.edu)
Mon, 02 Nov 1998 08:38:55 -0600
tedwhite@compusnet.com wrote:
>
> Duane brings up the subject of Edward S. Aarons. I
confess I tried to
> read only one of his books and gave up on it a chapter
or two in.
>
> I grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. Aarons set his
spy novels
> here. His descriptions of a Virginia Potomac waterfront
were so
> unbelievable that they made clear to me that he'd never
been to the
> area.
>
> I can't read an author who is that sloppy with his
locales. It's
> like another mystery writer (name mercifully forgotten,
but he liked
> to mix psychic elements into his mystery plots, which
didn't help) who
> described "the cliffs of Long Island," clearly unaware
that Long
> Island is a giant sand bar....
>
> On the other hand, I was a big fan of Donald Hamilton's
Matt Helm
> books -- and his westerns, as well. The last (most
recent) of his
> books on my shelf is THE VANISHERS, 1986. Has he had
more recent
> books?
>
> --Ted White
Ted --
Since THE VANISHERS Hamilton has published 'THE DEMOLISHERS
(1987), THE
FRIGHTENERS (1989), THE THREATENERS (1992) and THE DAMAGERS
(1993).
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