On Sat, 5 Aug 2000
Moorich2@aol.com wrote:
> Albert did do some good work in his long career.
Crider is off on a European
> jaunt or I imagine he would be naming a few for us.
Juri said Marv Lachman
> rates this series as the best of Albert. That might
be but recently he
> criticised the first in the series STONE ANGEL as
being mediocre in plot and
> some of the writing careless. I don't think the
series is a favorite of
> Marv's. The novels do move quickly and make for good
light fun. Some days
> that's all I want.
That certainly wasn't my day. It is George Kelley, not Marvin
Lachman, who claims at least in "Murder off the Rack" and
"Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers" that the Stone
Angel books are Albert's best works. Sorry - again! (I should
stop writing, since I don't seem to get anything
right...)
Juri
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