I don't think this has been mentioned on the list, but Dennis
Lynds (who wrote as Michael Collins and many other names) has
a web site:
He has up some short stories, a bibliography, some short
essays about his writing and how he got started, ads for his
books, etc.
From http://www.dennislynds.com/first20years.htm:
| When I began publishing detective novels in 1967 I had
no
| idea I wasn't supposed to, or that I was helping start "a
new golden
| age of the PI." That Gores, Pronzini, Block, Hansen, Lewin,
Parker,
| Lyons, Greenleaf, and a host of others would come along a
few years
| later. I didn't know that no newcomer had started a PI
series since
| 1953, that PI stories were dead as a dodo, curiosities,
period pieces.
| It had all been done. No one was writing anything
worthwhile in the
| detective field. You couldn't do serious, contemporary work
in the
| genre. Forget it.
|
| So why did I write Act Of Fear? Pure ignorance, and because
I came to
| the detective novel not as a fan of the genre in general,
but as a
| writer who liked what Hammett and Chandler had written, who
saw a way to
| write some special books I wanted to write.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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