I think Bill surely said it in jest, because Tom Nolan's Ross
Macdonald
(NOT MacDonald) biography is not likely to be reissued in
paperback. Very
few biographies of mystery writers are reissued in paperback.
None of the
three major Hammett biographies are in paperback, except
Diane Johnson's
biography in trade paperback reprint. Frank MacShane's
Chandler biography
has not been reprinted in paperback, I guess, even though its
review hit
the front page of the New York Times Book Review.
Nolan's Macdonald biography mentions the so-called "Macdonald
conspiracy"
by William Goldman and John Leonard. Macdonald may be
overrated in his
later years, but I think this may conpensate him with his
earlier
("pre-conspiracy") underrated years.
Jiro Kimura
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Kanazawa, JAPAN
e-mail: jkimura@nsknet.or.jp
The Gumshoe Site (http://www.nsknet.or.jp/~jkimura/)
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