Thank you, Mark, for your observations. I have just ordered the book.
It's a real pity that some authors don't ever get any consideration from
the critics, whereas there still is a continuous flow of publications on
writers we seem to already know all about (Chandler, Hammett, Cain, etc.).
I'll have to check Hubin's "Crime Fiction" and the "Saint James Guide to
Crime and Mystery Writing" as well, though.
Jerome
Mark Sullivan a écrit :
>
> Jerome, although he does not get a separate heading in Paul's book,
> Butler is the lead off author in the Fear (1940-1949) section. There's
> about a page on him which lists his six books and makes some comments
> on their themes. No real info on him.
>
> Mark
>
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> On 1 March 2000, Paul Duncan wrote on this list:
> "I'm currently writing a small piece on Butler for my little book on
> Noir Fiction out April in the UK."
> I have just discovered Gerald Butler and am desperately looking for some
> information on him. Only three of his books have been translated into
> French (in the late 1940s) and he is not at all popular here, so that it
> is pretty difficult to find anything on him.
> Could you tell me if this reference contains (as promised, and as I
> hope) some information on Butler :
> Duncan, Paul (2000). Noir Fiction: Dark Highways, Pocket Essentials,
> ISBN 1903047110 ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jerome
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