--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "George Tuttle"
<noirfiction@w...> wrote:
>
> For whatever it is worth, I miss Mike Avallone. I
suspect in Mike's
> mind, he thought of himself as the Mel Ott of the
genre. He wasn't.
> Still, with his book High Noon at Midnight, I
thought he wrote a truly
> great private eye novel and made an original and
profound statement
> about a type of fiction too often riddled with
cliques and mediocrity.
> Mike wasn't a .300 hitter. He was more of a
journeyman utility
> outfielder, one who always got surprised every year
when he didn't
> make the All-Star team. Still, with that one book, I
thought Mike was
> everything in his mind's eye, and some.
>
> George the Librarian
Hey, I think so too. Only meant, in fact, that, as opposed to
the dearly departed Churner, I'm just a streaky farm-team
clutch hitter who can't afford to turn up my nose at D.I.Y.
presses. I also think Little Miss Murder is right up there
with Mark Harris on the lovely-baseball-books-of-our-time top
shelf. MK
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