Re: RARA-AVIS: Gold Medal Month -- MURDER IN THE WIND

From: JIM DOHERTY ( jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com)
Date: 26 Aug 2002


Doug,

Re your speculation below:

> It also occurred to me that JDM's real influence has
> played out not in hardboiled novels so much as, of
> all
> things, horror books. By way of Stephen King and
> Dean
> Koontz, I suspect, both of whom are JDM fans. Hell,
> THE STAND is almost "JDM writes THE LORD OF THE
> RINGS".

King once was a surprise guest at a Bouchercon at which JDM was the GOH. He spoke of what a great influence JDM had been and apparently considered JDM as something of a mentor.

JIM DOHERTY

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