Thanks to Richard Moore for the interesting complement about
the Kanes which will be certainly more useful than my
previous posting...
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Moorich2@aol.com wrote:
> Henry Kane's Peter Chambers novels debuted
in
> hardback in the late 1940s,
> perhaps a year or two later than Frank Kane's
Johnny
> Liddell. Since I am in
> Brussels far away from my collection, I can't
be
> precise on dates or
> publishers.
And... my own old collection is in Brussels! (not
joking)
> I read and enjoyed both as a teenager but
gradually
> favored Henry Kane. The
> Peter Chambers novels were sexy (for the time)
and
> funny. Great snappy
> dialog. [snipped] I stopped buying Frank
Kane.
> Richard Moore
So, maybe my first guess was wrong. But we came apparently
both, Richard Moore and myself, to the same conclusion: One
of them Kanes is to avoid...
E.Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
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