Back in November while discussing Raoul Whitfield, you
mentioned you had a
top ten list. Care to list for us?
Brad Cox
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From: owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca [mailto:owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca]
On Behalf
Of MT
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 1998 11:24 AM
To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Recent Readings
Roger Dowdy:
<<Just finished Raoul Whitfield's _Green Ice_ and loved
it. I really
enjoyed the way he leads the reader through the plot. He also
deals
nicely with quite a few different characters without allowing
the story
to become too confusing. I know Whitfield had at least two
other books:
_Death in A Bowl_ and _The Virgin Kills_. Are these just as
good? >>
I'm glad you liked it - this is one of my favorite books
(hell, I even
included it in My Top Ten List...). He only wrote those three
novels --
but his many short stories are wonderful. Unfortunately, they
have never
been collected (not even the celebrated Jo Gar series). You
can find
some in hardboiled and pulp anthologies, of which Whitfield
is pretty
much a fixture.
As to your question, the other two novels are quite different
- they are
not as ground-breaking as _Green Ice_. Nevertheless, they are
terrific
reads.
Regards,
MT
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