Yeah, I'm reading one right now. In 1987 Rex Miller published
_Slob_,
which was intended to be the first in a trilogy of novels
featuring Jack
Eichord, a Chicago homicide detective. Instead it became the
first in a
quartet of novels featuring Eichord's quarry, the 469 lb.
genius/idiot
serial murderer "Chaingang" Bunkowksi. Miller was right:
ex-alcoholic
homicide detectives are a dime a dozen, but there's only one
Chaingang.
This quartet of Chaingang novels are ferociously original and
completely
unclassifiable, straddling the "hardboiled" and "horror"
genres like Joe
R. Lansdale and James Ellroy have done.
-- James Stephenson Rare Books & Special Collections Cataloger McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Mailto:js272@umail.umd.edu # # To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to majordomo@icomm.ca. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.vex.net/~buff/rara-avis/.