Hello to the Rare Avians:
I've been a lurker for a few months, thoroughly each delivery
of this list, and I thought I'd come out from behind the
curtain.
I'm 37, and like many on this list, got introduced to PI
fiction and hardboiled fiction by reading the classics --
Dash, Raymond and Ross. Among my current favorite writers are
Cumley, Block and John Straley (probably not hardboiled, but
a damn fine writer anyway). Two others I've always liked
seemed to have fallen off the face of the earth, Arthur Lyons
and Jonathan Valin. Valin, I understand, is now editor of a
stereo magazine, but I have no idea what happened to Lyons.
Anyone know?
I saw the KC Constantine piece last Sunday on CBS, and I must
offer a dissenting view. I found the profile to be extremely
disappointing. Anthony Mason seemed far more interested in
the identity mystery than Constantine's work. It was like he
really wasn't very familiar with it at all. Usually these
profiles are dead-on, which makes the letdown even more
profound.
Keep all those great reading ideas coming!
Steve Miller Columbus, OH
stevethebear@msn.com
"To maintain the powers of the mind into old age, you must
risk the contempt of your younger acquaintances and freely
admit that you read detective novels."
B.F. Skinner
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