----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Crider" <
abc@wt.net> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000
10:38 AM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Old Nick
> I've read quite a few of the Nick Carter books (even
wrote one of them,
> published 20 years ago next month, my first sale!),
and they're very
> uneven. A lot depends on the author. Mike Avallone
wrote the first six
or
> so, and Bob Randisi and Bob Vardeman wrote quite a
few. Martin Cruz Smith
> wrote a couple. Dwight V. Swain (author of the
classic "Bring Back my
> Brain," one of Richard Moore's faves) did one.
Manning Lee Stokes was a
> regular. There were lots of others.
Such as Dennis Lynds and W.T. Ballard, to name another couple
of authors familiar to the list. Hard to believe, but it's
been over ten years since the Nick Carter series ended in May
1990 with #261. Pat Hawk has managed to identify nearly all
of the authors. Avallone wrote the first two books in the
series, _Run Spy Run_ and _The China Doll_, but Lyle Kenyon
Engel fired him in the middle of the third book, _Saigon_,
supposedly at the urging of the editor at Award Books.
_Saigon_ was finished by Valerie Moolman, who went on to
write several more Carters on her own. Vardeman's books are
pretty good, as are Martin Cruz Smith's. And the one by that
Crider guy is one of the best.
James
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