--- abc <
abc@wt.net> wrote:
> Well, speaking of idiots, I read The DADA Caper
and
> several
> other Ross Spencer books. I thought they
were
> pretty
> amusing at the time, but I have pretty low
tastes.
> I
> suppose entire books composed of
one-sentence
> paragraphs can
> get irritating to some people, but it worked for
me,
> at
> least for a while. I still have the books, but
I
> haven't
> tried re-reading them.
Bill, I agree totally. I found him very funny. And
someone--Pronzini, I think, but don't hold me to that--has
said that Spencer is the first HB PI writer in decades to do
anything new with the genre. Although, he wrote that some
time ago--I'm going to guess about 1985, but I don't have it
in front of me.
G.
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