McHale, Steve (SMcHale@filenet.com)
Tue, 28 Dec 1999 08:20:39 -0800
I have read
The Pleasant Grove Murders. I liked it very much but I would
not consider it hard boiled. It's a rural setting featuring a
smart sheriff, a wrongly accused parolee and some obnoxious
small town politics. It reminded me very much of Richard
Wormser's The Intruder or Helen Nielsen's Detour. I've been
looking for Vance's other crime book, The Fox Valley Murders
(forgive me it that is not the correct title). The only copy
I saw was a good hardcover with dustjacket for over
$200.
> Mr. Vance also penned some more prosaically situated
crime stories. I've
> got a copy of his THE PLEASANT GROVE MURDERS. I
haven't read same myself
> yet but, according to blurbs on the back of this Ace
paperback, Anthony
> Boucher and the NEW YORK TIMES both liked it. The
King Features Syndicate
> is also enblurbed as stating: "THIS IS DETECTIVE
FICTION AT ITS BEST".
>
>
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