At 10:13 PM 5/25/00 -0400,Doug Greene wrote:
>
>
>Cohen was once a major writer for THE SATURDAY
EVENING POST. His JIM HANVEY
>DETECTIVE (1923) and SCRAMBLED YEGGS (1934) are
pretty good examples of an
>attempt to find an American style of mystery. But he
was most popualr for a
>series of supposedly amusing stories about FLORIAN
SLAPPEY a "colroed
gentleman"
>whom we are supposed to find amusing.
>
My take is to find him "non-boiled" but I
gather some of his stuff is fairly tough. I agree that he was
given some good lurid paberback covers. As he was a slick
writer, I probably haven't given his stories the attention
they deserve, though I do have a couple.
James
James Michael Rogers
jetan@ionet.net
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