Re: RARA-AVIS: Re:Joseph Hansen
dspurlock@humana.com
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 14:57:58 -0400
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I couldn't figure out exactly what Tanner's fate was in
Greenleaf's last
book. Greenleaf said in an interview that he wouldn't revive
the Tanner
series unless there were commercial interest (I assume he was
trying to say
that his sales haven't been great). But he didn't say that he
would stop
writing, and I really hope he doesn't.
The case of Greenleaf is paradoxical: he has outdone Ross
Macdonald at his
own game (and did it early, in State's Evidence, a brilliant
tour de force
in which there are so many skeletons in the closet that nobody
is who you
think at the beginning of the book); as a stylist he is second
to none in
the mystery field. Yet he is not nearly as popular as his
talent and
achievements would suggest.>>
Greenleaf is VERY good and I've enjoyed everything that I've
read by him.
Some a little more than others, but that's true of nearly
every writer. And
I agree that a couple of his earlier Tanner novels out-Archer
Ross
Macdonald.
Another underrated writer is Jonathan Valin, whose Harry
Stoner mysteries
I've found to be solidly written and very
entertaining.--Duane
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