james.doherty@gsa.gov
24 Aug 99 16:18:00 -0400
Re Bill's recent post:
"I don't know much about
Gruber. Are these" [Fletcher & Cragg]
"recurring characters? If not,
did he have any, or did everything
stand alone?"
Yes they are. I don't know how
many books were in the series, but
there were several. Also at
least one movie with Mike Mazurki as the
muscular guy.
Gruber also wrote three novels
about a LA-based PI name Simon Lash.
In the pulps he wrote a long
series of short stories about
crime-solving encyclopedia
salesman Oliver Quade, some of which were
collected in a book called, if
memory serves, *Brass Knucks*.
Interestingly, all three series
dealt with books in one way or
another. Quade, as I mentioned,
was an encyclopedia salesman.
Fletcher & Cragg sold a
body-building manual. Lash collected rare
books about the early frontier
which were often the "Macguffins" of
the books' plots. - Jim
Doherty
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