----- Original Message ----- From: "William Denton" <
buff@pobox.com> To: "RARA-AVIS" <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000
1:52 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Themed months and Mike
Shayne
> On 13 October 2000, Juri Nummelin wrote:
>
> : Maybe not a very good idea, but we could start
with the early ones,
> : graduate through the fourties and fifties and
finally get to those
> : ghosted by Ryerson Johnson, Robert Terrall,
Michael Collins, James
> : Reasoner and other people. Hmm.. very definitive
maybe on that.
>
> Mr. Reasoner and that whole big crew (Pronzini and
so on) ghosted for the
> magazine, didn't they? I thought from the biblio
that Dresser and Terrall
> did 90% of the books.
Yes, all my Shayne work was for the magazine. Issues of MSMM
might be harder to find these days than the novels
themselves.
> I think a Mike Shayne year might be a bit intensive,
but perhaps we could
> turn the reading list into themed months. Each month
we could take a
> writer or character or series and just have at it.
Different people would
> end up reading different books and we'd end up with
quite a conglomeration
> of facts and opinions. It'd mean people didn't have
to worry about
> getting a specific title, too.
>
> Bill
> --
> William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/
: Caveat
lector.
I think the themed months idea is excellent. A year of the
big redhead would leave me groggy, but I'd love an excuse to
reread some of the early ones. I'm sure the same holds true
of other authors and characters. Richard S. Prather/Shell
Scott is one suggestion that comes to mind, but we ought to
do some more recent stuff, too.
Best, James
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