It's interesting to note (or at least I find it so) that the distinguished classicist, John Dickson Carr, who usually could not stand anything hardboiled, loved the Mett Helm series, and praised them in his EQMM review column. - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca