In a message dated 9/12/03 4:04:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca writes:
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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 02:01:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net (Mark Sullivan)
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: More on Seven Anderton
Damn, Richard, that's a lot of plot. How long is this
story? Sounds
great, though. Have the Pender stories ever been
reprinted? I wonder
if Max Allan Collins had read them before writing Ms
Tree.
Mark
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The story is a little over 22 pulp 2-column pages. I
would estimate a little over 15,000 words. After the opening
scene in the Ware & Pender office the pace never slows. I
don't know if any of the stories have been reprinted but I
doubt it and I doubt Collins read them before Ms Tree.
I realize I have rattled on at great length about a very
obscure writer and series. But here is one more description
of Edna Pender from another Anderton story: "Miss Pender
looked like the second coming of something that should have
stayed away the first time. She was small, bow-legged, and
thin---except at the bust. What she had there would have
aroused the envy of any Hollywood sweater-girl. Her features
were nice--if considered singly--but they didn't match; the
face was grotesque, except when she smiled."
Richard Moore
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