-----Original Message----- From: Richard Moore,
Moorich2@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 5:58
PM
It has been awhile since I posted here. I pulled out THE
NIGHT MAYOR by Kim
Newman but I just wasn't in the mood for SF, even
hardboiled.
--Hope you have a good time with it! It's a labor of love,
even if even more obviously of the films than the fiction
that inspired them.
I bid my token bid because that issue [of ARGOSY] contains a
story by Carroll John Daly AND it was in the June 1923 issue
of Black Mask that Daly introduced Race Williams in "Knights
of the Open Palm."
So the Argosy arrived yesterday and I read Daly's "The
Lexicon of Youth" and
I can report that it is dreadful beyond belief. Meant to be a
funny, light story, it is tediously ponderous or perhaps
ponderously tedious. Whatever talent Daly had, that month in
1923 it all went into the Race Williams story.
--Having read "Knights of the Open Palm," I can attest that
there wasn't much talent to mete out. But perhaps it was a
less painful read than the ARGOSY story.
Another purchase came in today: the digest "Detective Story
Annual 1948." Similar to the Standard Magazines' pulp "Top
Detective Annual" (which reprinted from the Thrilling
magazines from a decade or more back) this annual contains
reprints from the Street & Smith detective magazines from
1944 to 1946.
--Not long before S&S folded the tent on Daisy Bacon's
DETECTIVE STORY run, in '49...rather a pity, given how
diverse DS was. My postwar issues range from weird-menace
through hb to cozy, a rather larger range than any other CF
magazine since, without actually going beyond CF (as with
FUTURES or, arguably, CRIMEWAVE). I wonder if sales were
truly bad enough to make it not worth continuing (and
ASTOUNDING SF's sales good enough to hold onto, in
comparison?). Or if Popular, which apparently bought the
title (and abortively revived it in the early '50s), made an
unrefusable offer... TM
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