--- William Ahearn <
williamahearn@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm not a fan of Evan Hunter's
> work
> or the Matthew Hope series which shows McBain
(or
> Hunter) really wasn't committed to it and said
as
> much
> in an interview.
>
> The last several 87ths aren't so hot. The other
40
> or
> so are good reads.
****************************************************** I can
think of several GREAT Hunter titles: LAST SUMMER, NOBODY
KNEW THEY WERE THERE, COME WINTER, CRIMINAL CONVERSATIONS. If
he wasn't committed to the work he did under that name, he
must have been a natural at creating believable plots. None
of them are shoddy, tossed off books. He grabbs me from the
first sentence and holds on. I tend to read them fast, too.
Put off doing other things and just read the book.
It's true the last two 87th stories weren't very good, but
they weren't awful, either. They just didn't hold me the way
he usually does. Hunter/McBain is one of my favorite writers.
He's on a par with Leonard and Rendell for me.
Patrick King
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