RARA-AVIS: Re: Australian hardboiled summarized

From: Duane Spurlock ( duane1spur@yahoo.com)
Date: 07 Apr 2003


Karen Anderson < karenand@mac.com> wrote:

<<
> Caroline Shaw
> CAT CHASER, probably the only hardboiled cat novel
I've come across,
> great
> central character.

A hardboiled cat novel? However, this led me on a merry chase at abebooks.com until I figured out that the title is actually Cat Catcher.
>>

The ubiquity of Cats in the titles of mysteries has nearly made them MacGuffins rather than felines. So, to cut off similar confusion about another title, THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING is a western, not a mystery.
;-)

-Duane Spurlock Proprietor The Pulp Rack http://pulprack.com

Now at eBay: Howard Browne's HALO IN BLOOD in pb http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=29228&item=3511715415&rd=1

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