I don't know why I picked up AS A MAN FALLS (1954) by Howard
Rigsby. Maybe because Anthony Boucher really liked another
Rigsby GM book, LUCINDA. I should've read that one, because
AS A MAN FALLS is pretty bad. It begins with a classic Gold
Medal situation: a guy wakes up in a motel, and there's a
dead blonde in the next room. But it doesn't take any of the
expected routes to the climax. I guess it's supposed to be a
"psychological novel," and it's full of the kind of bad
writing that makes you realize Rigsby thought he was writing
a Serious Novel. It has the kind of cast that JDM could have
done a bang-up job with, but I wouldn't recommend Rigsby's
version to anyone.
Bill Crider
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