Thanks, Jeff! While 40 books is a good milestone, I'm
currently working on book #50, which is due out at
Christmastime, and we've got some fun things planned for our
"50th anniversary."
--Charles
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Vorzimmer"
<jvorzimmer@...> wrote:
>
> I want to congratulate Charles and Max on having now
published 40
Hard Case
> Crime titles. Already Christa Faust's Money Shot
seems to be
popular, though
> with only five ratings on GoodReads.com. Ironically
the HCC title
rated
> (=read) most often on that site was Stephen King's
at 400 times,
but its
> accumulated rating put it 35th out of the 40 titles
in popularity.
>
> There probably aren't enough of ratings of most of
the HCC books on
> GoodReads to make it a really good gauge of the
popularity of these
titles,
> but nonetheless sites like that help sell books and
it's
interesting to see
> how popular the titles are on a scale of 1 to 5.
Here are the top
20:
>
> Say It with Bullets - Richard Powell -
4.00
> Money Shot - Christa Faust - 4.00
> The Vengeful Virgin - Gil Brewer - 3.87
> A Touch of Death - Charles Williams -
3.86
> Fade to Blonde - Max Phillips - 3.82
> The Girl with the Long Green Heart - Lawrence Block
- 3.74
> The Gutter and the Grave - Ed McBain -
3.68
> The Wounded and the Slain - David Goodis -
3.67
> Songs of Innocence - Richard Aleas - 3.67
> Home is the Sailor - Day Keene - 3.67
> Little Girl Lost - Richard Aleas - 3.66
> Night Walker - Donald Hamilton - 3.64
> The Confession - Domenic Stansberry -
3.63
> Grifter's Game - Lawrence Block - 3.62
> Branded Woman - Wade Miller - 3.58
> Lucky at Cards - Lawrence Block - 3.57
> Bust - Ken Bruen and Jason Starr - 3.55
> The Last Match - David Dodge - 3.40
> Kill Now, Pay Later - Robert Terrall -
3.38
> The Peddler - Richard S. Prather - 3.36
>
> Jeff
>
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