In a message dated 9/8/03 4:03:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca writes:
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Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 06:54:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ed Lynskey <
e_lynskey@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Hunt Collins detective
series
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Moorich2@aol.com wrote:
> It is a first person private eye story featuring
Guthrie Lamb
> who carries a
> .45 in a shoulder holster and drives around New
York City in a
> 1942 Ford with
> 1948 engine. He likes to drink milk.
This milk-drinking detective sounds vaguely familiar to
me. I
mean it's been spoofed before, sure, but I remember it
from a
b&w movie of more serious intent. Was this Guthrie
Lamb PI put
on the silver screen?
Might Kevin have it on his PI pages at THRILLING
DETECTIVE? I
ran a quick scan, didn't spot anything.
Ed Lynskey >>
Here's a likely candidate. Daniel Mainwaring, under his
Geoffrey Homes by-line, wrote an excellent series about the
milk-drinking Humphrey Campbell. These novels were fast and
funny with titles like NO HANDS ON THE CLOCK (1939) and
FINDERS KEEPERS (1940). An adaptation to the the screen would
not surprise me but I can't verify that now and don't have
time to research it this morning. Mainwaring, of course, did
co-author the script for the classic "Out of the Past" from
his novel BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH.
Richard Moore
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