: On this topic, it's worth mentioning once again Harold
Adams, a
: formidable hardboiled writer with a low profile. His
wonderful
: series of P.I. novels featuring Carl Wilcox and set in the
Midwest
: during the Depression is recommendable not just to lovers
of the
: hardboiled but to all mystery fans.
You've mentioned Adams before and I've been keeping an eye
out for his
books. A little while ago I saw one in a used store, _When
Rich Men
Die_, and got it, but it features "wisecracking P.I. Kyle
Champion,"
not Wilcox, and seems to be set when written, in 1987. I
haven't read
it yet, but I do like the glowing blurbs from Harlan Ellison
and
Lawrence Block.
Bill
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