Bill wrote:
> If you search Google on 'marlowe "operation
whiplash"' one the few hits
> you get is from the list archives where Juri
Nummelin (who's off list now)
> quotes Anders Engwall as saying Dan J. Marlowe's
late entry in his Earl
> Drake series OPERATION WHIPLASH (1973) is "pretty
terrible." I can now
> authoritatively agree with him. The first, THE NAME
OF THE GAME IS DEATH
> (1962), shouldn't be missed, though.
I found "One Endless Hour" pretty disappointing, too. There
again, it's hard to top the energy and drive of "Name of the
Game." Having said that, I thoroughly enjoyed Marlowe's
"Doorway to Death" - one of five novels featuring Johnny
Killain, a hotel detective (the hotel setting spawns a later
title in the series: "Doom Service")
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