Ed,
Re your question below:
"Do you have a favorite Dewey title, Mario?"
Mario's suggestion, A SAD SONG SINGING, based on the
"hootenanny" vogue of the early '60's, is a very good
one.
My personal favorite is 1956's THE MEAN STREETS, a title that
deliberately evokes Chandler, in which Mac is hired to go
undercover as a teacher in a suburban high school to ferret
out the root of the community's juvenile deliquency
problem.
THE BIG SLEEP meets THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE.
Like Ed McBain, Dewey was a teacher himself, though at the
college level, not high school.
The only Mac short story, "The Big Job," was reprinted in one
of those BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR antologies Dutton
used to put out annually. I think Dewey's story appeared in a
volume from the mid-60's. If your local library has a fairly
complete collection, you might find the short piece a good
introduction to Dewey and Mac.
JIM DOHERTY
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