----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Burton Smith"
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kvnsmith@colba.net> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001
8:29 AM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Racing in the Streets
> Bill wrote:
>
> >I think it was Henry Gregor Felsen who wrote
_Hot Rod_, _Crash Club_, and
> >other novels like that, not Henry Slesar. When I
was in high school in
the
> >Sixties, Felsen was respectable enough so that
we read one of his books
in
> >English class. Nearly forgotten now, I
imagine.
>
>
> And more's the pity. But if we're gonna talk about
rebellious kids,
> hot rods and stuff like that, we can't forget that
when the first
> Brock Callahan books failed to set the world on fire
commercially,
> William Campbell Gault turned to writing such great
stuff as DIRT
> TRACK SUMMER.
>
> In fact, I picked up my first Brock because I
recognized Gault's name
> from all those hot rod novels I read as a
kid.
>
> Vroom, vroom, everybody.
>
> --
>
> Kevin Burton Smith
> The Thrilling Detective Web Site
> http://www.thrillingdetective.com
Gault wrote juvenile sports books, too, but I don't think I
ever read any of them. I saw enough of those and his racing
books around so that I knew his name from them and not from
the mysteries until much later.
And by the way, Bill was quoting me above. I attended high
school in the Sixties. I believe Bill was *teaching* high
school in the Sixties.
Best, James
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