Re: RARA-AVIS: NOIR ORIGINALS and Charles Williams

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Ed,

Re your comment below about AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA:
> I also finished reading Charles Williams' AND THE
> DEEP BLUE SEA
> (1971), another of his rousing seafaring yarns.
> Buried in the
> narrative, Mr. Williams philosophizes a bit about
> the Vietnam
> War and other modern angst, using his protagonist as
> a
> mouthpiece. As far as I know, this marks the only
> CW title to
> be nominated for an Edgar (Best Paperback Original,
> 1972).

And it should have won. I enjoyed it a lot more than the winner, FOR MURDER I CHARGE MORE by Frank McAuliffe.

JIM DOHERTY

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