>
Moorich2@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Juri: curious to learn what you think of Marv
Albert's "Stone Angel."
> > Albert had a great career from Gold Medal
through Tony Rome to the Stone
> > Angel series. Consistently delivers great
reads.
>
Juri:
> So far I've read two, "The Last Smile" and "Back to
the Real World". "The
Last
> Smile" was good and adventurous, even though I
didn't care much for the
solution.
> "Back to the..." was worse, Pete Sawyer gets his
information far too
easily, just
> dropping to see some old friends. That's no way for
a private eye. But
there's
> some genuine feeling in the books and my overall
estimate is positive.
,,,,
> "The Gargoyle Conspiracy" I found a bit dull, didn't
even finish it.
>
> The thing about the Stone Angel series I most like
is the way Albert has
put the American hard boiled detective in an exotic setting
and rules At least they are exotic to me. Our favorites are
all strange to Juri. I had even recommended that Bill put The
Stone Angel on our reading list a couple of months ago.
I think 'Gargoyle' , as well as The Medusa Complex and
Dark Goddess, is bloated because Albert was trying to appeal
to the mass readership by writing a big foreign intrigue
suspense novel rather than a stripped down Gold Medal-like
book . I assume Pete Sawyer was created for a role in
'Goddess, and when Albert, who was living in France at the
time, wanted to write a series set there,. he already had his
pi along with the appropriate background and associate.
Mark
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