Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Blown Away, in all kinda ways


Maura McMillan (mmcm@azstarnet.com)
Fri, 31 Dec 1999 18:32:14 -0700


kevin

yes, dennis heard you. the bottom line - can one sell a thousand copies?

At 11:40 PM 12/31/1999 +0000, you wrote:
>
>
>Kevin Burton Smith wrote:
>
>> Michael Collins
>> Stephen Greenleaf
>> Neil Albert
>> Norbert Davis
>> Bill Pronzini
>
>I'm glad to see Norbert Davis on somebody's list. I considered putting
him on
>mine -- I've had so many second and third thoughts about this damn list --
but
>it's just too hard to find his work. It would be a great service to everyone
>if his Doan and Carstairs stories were reprinted. They'd fit comfortably
in a
>single volume: two novelets, "Cry Murder" and "Holocaust House"; and three
>fairly short novels: SALLY'S IN THE ALLEY, THE MOUSE IN THE MOUNTAIN and OH,
>MURDERER MINE. These are some of the best HB comedies ever written, about
>Doan, a slightly sleezy babyfaced conman PI and Carstairs, the pedigreed
great
>Dane he won in a card game. The great Dane, having some class, is rather
>ashamed to be seen with a lowlife like his new master. Way overdue for
>reprinting. Are you listening, Dennis McMillan?
>
>BobT
>
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