Frank Gruber's books about Johnny Fletcher are funny and
mildly hardboiled. Belongs to the screwboiled genre (love
that term!).
>From early fourties to early sixties, some of the
books were
paperbacks.
I don't find Henry Kane funny, but he tried to be. Same with
Craig Rice.
David Dodge's books about Whit Whitney are strictly
screwboiled.
In the pulps, I find the Mariano Mercado stories by D.L.
Champion very funny. Peter Paige had some very funny stories
in Dime Detective in the late fourties. And what about Seven
Anderton, whom Richard Moore has praised very highly?
Merle Constiner's Western novels from the fifties and sixties
are very tough and in their toughness there's a great deal of
humour. I haven't read any of Constiner's crime stories or
his sole novel of the genre, "Hearse of a Different
Color".
Juri
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