RARA-AVIS: Re: Moorcock's Crime Fiction: Reasoner

From: Richard Moore ( moorich@aol.com)
Date: 26 Oct 2007


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "foxbrick" <foxbrick@...> wrote:
>
> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, James Reasoner
<jamesreasoner@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Michael Moorcock is supposed to have written at least one of the
Hank
> Janson books, the long-running English hardboiled series. At one
point
> I knew the title but don't have that info handy at the moment.
Several
> years ago when I was sitting next to him at a signing I was
tempted to
> ask him about the Hank Janson rumor, but I didn't.
>
> At least on online source seems to credit him with a single "HJ"
short
> story:
>
> "The Girl Who Shot Sultry Kane" (as Hank Janson), in _Golden
Nugget_,
> April 1965.
>
> Todd Mason (who's queried the assembled on FictionMags for any
further
> work under that name)
>
Hubin's CRIME FICTION IV does not list a Hank Janson novel by Moorcock. It does credit Moorcock with ghosting at least one of the Sexton Blake novels under the name Desmond Reid. Hubin lists Moorcock among the writers on CARIBBEAN CRISIS (1962).

Richard Moore



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