Bill Crider said: That book of Anthony Boucher's reviews that
I've mentioned here before covers a good bit of the 1940s.
Boucher reviewed the Shayne novels of that era very
favorably.
************* Thanks, Bill. I'm wanting to pick up those two
volumes of Boucher's reviews. MURDER OFF THE RACK came
yesterday and I read some of your essay on Harry Whittington,
but I backed off before I went too far. Other than some
recommendations on good titles, I like to read something by
an author first, form my own opinions, and then see what the
experts say. That means I can read Collins's article on
Thompson, Gorman's essay on Williams, and Westlake's comments
on Rabe. I'll have to work on getting some of the other
titles discussed in the book. I don't have any of them.
on Brett Halliday:
I've got Halliday's TASTE FOR VIOLENCE coming. Yesterday was
a pretty good day, really. Aside from finishing Rabe's THE
BOX, I ordered several other new books: Daly's SNARL OF THE
BEAST, Raymond's I WAS DORA SUAREZ, Frohock's NOVEL OF
VIOLENCE IN AMERICA, and, I believe, something by Day
Keene.
miker
-- # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 07 Aug 2002 EDT