Bruce Townley (btownley@sirius.com)
Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:54:22 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 at 08:20 Steve McHale sent: John Holbrook
Vance
> 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.
Is Nielsen's DETOUR the book that the Edgar G. Ulmer movie's
based on? If so, then I'd be <very> interested in
looking it up as I'm a big fan of the flick.
Bruce T. = btownley@sirius.com
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