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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@w... wrote:
>
> I've got a Gold Medal paperback tie-in novel of
Johnny Staccato by
Frank
> Boyd. Do I remember correctly that that was a
pseudonym of Frank
Kane?
>
> And I've got a Dell paperback tie-in novel of Peter
Gunn by Henry
Kane.
>
> Haven't read either.
>
> Mark
>
Frank Boyd was a pseudonym of Frank Kane and that tie-in was
by Kane. I've never read the novel but several episodes of
the Johnny Staccato series were quite good. There is one
featuring Cloris Leachman that is very stark with one moment
that judging by the gasps when I showed it last year to a few
friends still has the power to shock.
I have the Henry Kane Peter Gunn novel and read it new off
the stands 45 years ago and recall enjoying it. Kane's style
suited the Peter Gunn character. I remember he had Gunn call
PI Peter Chambers in one scene to give his own character a
walk-on cameo.
Kane's Peter Chambers novels featured a breezy patter that
some enjoyed and others hated. I thought the better Chambers
novels were fun reads. I also enjoyed Thorne Smith and
Richard Prather. It's been years since I've read any of them
but I may circle back to see how they hold up.
Nearing sixty I've recently returned to old reading
favorites, such as Keith Laumer, who held up well, and have
just started to reread John Brunner. Actually, I am sampling
Brunner I missed during my SF reading heyday. Brunner wrote a
good bit outside the SF realm. I am currently reading his
HONKY IN THE WOODPILE (1971), the third thriller featuring
Max Curfew, a black espionage agent. It is bitterly militant,
which may explain why it was never published in the U.S. The
title lured me into ordering a copy and based on the first
third, I'm glad I did.
I was a SF fan before getting into mysteries and the
cross-over writers like Fred Brown and Henry Kuttner first
bridged me into reading mysteries.
Richard Moore
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