Madman on a Drum was also published as Strange Pursuit. I've
just ordered a copy from Powell's. Reading a lot of great
stuff recommended here lately. Thanks, guys.
Jim Beaver
> I'm still stuck in the '40s. Madman on a Drum is an
obscure
> book by N. R. De Mexico, published as a paperback
original
> by Cavalcade in 1944. Anthony Boucher gave it a rave
review
> in his column (reprinted in The Boucher Chronicles
II), and
> now Ramble House (publisher of the aforementioned
Boucher
> book) has reprinted Madman. It's the best Woolrich
pastiche
> you're likely to find outside George Hopley and
William
> Irish. Larry Graham suddenly finds himself in a
nightmare
> world where his apartment is no longer his, his job
is gone,
> his girlfriend has been murdered. From there on,
things
> just get worse. Everything happens in about 24
hours, so
> the pace is furious. Now and then de Mexico tries to
drag
> in the reader by narrating passages in second
person. It
> even sort of works. As far as I know, nobody knows
whether
> de Mexico (also the author of the highly
collectible
> Marijuana Girl) isa real name or a pen name. If it's
a pen
> name, two people (including Larry Shaw) have been
suggested
> as possibilities.
>
> Bill Crider
> --
> # 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/
.
>
-- # 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 Jan 2003 EST