Unless something happened, IPL is still around. They
reprinted all
five of the Bill Crane books and Solomon's Vineyard, which
helped me
fill out my Latimer collection a couple of years ago. I don't
know
about Latimer's post-Crane novels, written in the '50s,
though. I've
always considered the Latimer/Crane novels the best of what
Ron Goulart
called the "screwball" side of the hard-boiled genre. There
are other
practitioners, among them Frederick Nebel and Robert Reeves,
but I think
Latimer had them shaded.
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