George,
Re your questions below:
> Is anybody familiar with any of these titles?
I
> picked them up for a song at a used paperback
sale.
>
> Rafferty: Wrong Place, Wrong Time (W. Glenn
Duncan)
> Rafferty's Rules (Duncan)
The Rafferty series is a reasonably well-done, if fairly
generic (i.e. 30-is ex-cop operating a one-man PI agency in a
large US city, telloing his stories in the first person,
etc.), Texas-set PI series. Hero is kind of a cross between
Spenser and Mike Hammer with a Lone Star drawl. One of them,
I forget which, won a Shamus for best PBO PI novel.
*Rafferty's Rules*, the first in the series, has the hero
contending with an outlaw fiker gang.
> Shadow of a Tiger (Michael Collins)
Early entry in the always reliable Dan Fortune PI
series.
> Also, does anyone have an opinion on the Toff
books
> by Creasey?
I like Creasey (or at least I like the Roger West and Gideon
books, particularly the Gideons), but the Toff has always
left me cold. Too obviously a Saint rip-off, and if I want
the Saint, I can always read Leslie Charteris.
JIM DOHERTY
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