Frank Kane always struck me as a workmanlike tough-guy
writer, quite a bit
different from Henry Kane, whose books have a lighter tone.
H. Kane is an
interesting case. He started out in hardback, with Dell
reprinting his
books. Then he went to paperback originals and his p.i.,
Peter Chambers
showed up in books from just about every publishing house
around. At the
end of his career, he wound up working for Lancer, still
writing about
Chambers, even though the books were supposedly "X-rated" and
had titles
like THE SCHACK JOB.
Bill Crider
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