Sidney,
Re your comment below:
> Ah, yes. Robert Leslie Bellem and all his
pulp-PI
> colleagues are
> entertainingly reviewed in Bill Pronzini's GUN
IN
> CHEEK.
> The absolutely definitive book about the genre,
that
> still manages
> to keep a sense of fun about it.
It seems to me that, in that same book, Pronzini devotes a
chapter to the one book he regards as the single worst
mystery novel ever written. I forget the title (was it DECOY,
or am I confusing that with a Cleve Adams novel?), but the
reason I bring it up in this thread is that the
detective-hero is a movie-stuntman, something of a precursor
to a character Lee Majors played on TV in a series that must
have been about as forgettable as the novel because I can't
remember its title either.
JIM DOHERTY
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