----- Original Message ----- From: "Robison Michael R CNIN"
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> I want to know about the
> other Vin, Vin Packer. What books by her are
hardboiled
> and good? What about COME DESTROY ME and WHISPER HIS
SIN?
> There is quite a selection of her books at Abebooks,
but
> I understand she wrote children's books and also
nonhard-
> boiled, and I don't want to make guesses and end up
with
> something I'm not interested in.
Since you're only allowed to read one book by each new
author, you should go for THE DAMNATION OF ADAM
BLESSING.
I don't know if you own the Big Book of Noir, Mike, but I
think you'd find it a useful investment. I know I did. Under
"Mandatory Reads" for Vin Packer, Ed Gorman also lists
INTIMATE VICTIMS and ALONE AT NIGHT.
THE THRILL KIDS, 1955, sounds like a juvenile delinquent,
though I haven't read it ("Four kids from decent homes,
roaming the streets and looking for kicks. Four kids
who...one lovely summer night...wandered into Central Park,
first molested a girl, and then brutally murdered an old
vagrant they found asleep in a gully there."
SOMETHING IN THE SHADOWS, 1961: "A placid mask conceals the
face of voilence. Stark horror wears velvet gloves. A
piercing scream ends in the softest whisper."
3 DAY TERROR, 1957: I read this one a month or so ago. There
wasn't much terror, to be honest. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't
hb. Well-written, fairly gripping and sexually explicit.
Dominated by race issues.
Al
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