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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King
<abrasax93@...> wrote:
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> I recently re-read BAD BOY and POP. 1280 by Jim
Thompson. Now that's
noir comic genius! I wonder if Bellem wasn't plain Leslie
Bellem, a girl who wanted to break into fiction at a time
when only guys were selling, so she created this macho spoof.
BLUE MURDER has got to be the worst book I ever read. How it
got published is completely beyond me. He certainly didn't
work from an outline!
>
No, he was a guy. Quite capable of writing straight stuff
(scripts for TV, etc.). But on the loose, he was a maniac of
the typewriter.
Best,
mrt
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