Re: RARA-AVIS: Madman on a Drum

From: jumblejim ( jumblejim@prodigy.net)
Date: 07 Jan 2003


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
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