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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "bobav1" <rav7@...>
wrote:
>
> Great website, and intriguing reviews.
Thanks Bob!
>I have lots of these types of
> books, mostly for the covers, and it's been years
since I read it, but
> I remember thinking that Fletcher Bennett's Vice Row
(published by
> Playtime) was way better than average. (I moved this
summer, so I have
> no idea where my copy is.)
I haven't read VICE ROW, but suspect it's the same as THE
STREET, which I have read (the plots sound identical, and the
authors are Fletcher Bennett and Jed Bennett, respectively),
and if so, I wholeheartedly agree that it's quite good. I
wish I could remember where I read it, but I want to say I
read somewhere that Bennett was a Westlake pseudonym (not
sure about that at all--like I said, I can't at the moment
put my finger on the source for that).
> There's some decent writing in the early books
(pre-1963? 1964?
> 1965?)) of Nightstand/Midnight Reader/etc., Beacon,
Monarch, and
> Newsstand Library. Maybe not so surprising, given
that some of that
> stuff was being written by Block, Westlake, Evan
Hunter, John Jakes,
> Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison, Marion Zimmer
Bradley, etc., etc.,
> not to mention Willeford under his own name, and
Orrie Hitt, and some
> of those other unsung, unrepublished writers like
Clyde Allison.
I completely agree! Allison was a pseudonym, though, of
William Knoles. Earl Kemp, as usual, features a great article
about him, by Lynn Munroe (though you have to scroll down for
it):
http://efanzines.com/EK/eI7/index.htm
> Bob V in NJ, who's got a Midwood signed by Block and
Westlake
Where do you live, and what kind of locks do you have?
;-)
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