RARA-AVIS: Gold Medal Guys
Bill Crider (abc@wt.net)
Mon, 8 Feb 1999 12:51:22 -0600 (CST)
I know I'm supposed to be reading Donald Hamilton, but for some
reason I
started thinking about Richard Wormser, another Gold Medal
writer I admire.
So I pulled THE LATE MRS. FIVE off the shelf. Only 128 pages,
and the text
doesn't start until page 5. Try selling that to an editor these
days.
Wormser actually won an Edgar for best paperback I believe
(maybe THE
INVADER), and I've always enjoyed his storytelling. MRS. FIVE
is a classic
situation: A guy arrives in a strange town and is immediately
accused of
murder. Not exactly hardboiled, but lots of fun (for me
anyhow). If you
ever seen a Wormser book lying around one of those dusty old
used-book
stores that everyone except me seems to have access to, pick it
up.
Bill Crider
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