----- Original Message ----- From: "Juri Nummelin" <
juri.nummelin@pp.inet.fi> To: <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, March 10,
2005 4:48 AM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Humour
>
> 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.
Gruber's mysteries definitely belong in that category. His
Westerns, on the other hand, are uniformly bleak and
grim.
> 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".
Constiner's pulp private eye stories that I've read have all
had a lot of bizarre humor to them. Norbert Davis's stories
about Max Latin and Bail Bond Dodd are funny.
And then, of course, there's Robert Leslie Bellem . . .
James
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