Re: RARA-AVIS: RE: old books/new readers (was Bertha Cool/Donald Lam)

Mari Hall (found.dead.in.texas@airmail.net)
Mon, 06 Apr 1998 11:11:25 -0500 dspurlock@humana.com wrote:
>
> Has anyone read any of the novels featuring these characters? Though
> written by Erle Stanley Gardner, they were published as written by "A.A.
> Fair." Recommendations? Comments? Are they hardboiled?--Duane

I would suggest you go to the library and see if you can find these. My
fondest memories of my grandfather (who would probably not have liked
Moseley) was taking me to town to buy the lastest Gardner or Chase or
Coxe. This poses a question (which is easier answered than what is
hardboiled) which will answer this question posed by Duane, how do you
think books have "traveled" over the years. Did I just think Moseley was
good because it was his first? Or did I like Gardner/Fair because I have
"fond" memories of them and am looking back? Was John D. as good as we
thought? Was Donald Hamilton really so politically incorrect? What about
Spillane and where does he fit into "incorrectness"? Is that why BLACK
ALLEY not do well; it was too "old-timey".
>

-- 
whose DOROTHYL nom is Kate Warne the ex-Pinkerton in
The Woman With the Rose Tattoo by Mari Hall
See y'all at Bouchercon 29 in Philly Oct.1-4
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