Thanks for the correction, Mario. I don't know why, but I always get that title wrong, perhaps because that's what I thought it was called for those years I fruitlessly searched for it.
Mark
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> From: jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com
> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 20:12:31 +0000
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: Peter Rabe
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> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "jacquesdebierue" <jacquesdebierue@...> wrote:
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> > --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "davezeltserman" <Dave.Zeltserman@> wrote:
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> > > Mark, I got The Taste for Ashes and Halo of Brass. You've got me more motivated to push them to the top of my TBR.
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> > A Taste for Ashes is remarkable, one of the best PI novels I have ever read. It is the great work of Howard Browne. The other novels are good, but this one is also original, not a Chandler imitation. The Browne short stories are also excellent, as is his late historical novel Pork City (1988) about Al Capone and other boys in Chicago.
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> OK, we both mangled the title. It's "The Taste of Ashes"...
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