>Thank you, thank you...but, er, my straight-faced
recommendation was
>also tongue-in-cheek (to add another cliche to the
cascade). But it is
>true that Daly's novels are virtually unknown. _The
Hidden Hand_ was
>also reissued on paper by Harper, together with a
couple of other Daly
>books. I don't think those are in print any more, so
it's nice to have
>the electronic edition. Is it in Acrobat
format?
Yep, it's in pdf, a format I'm thinking of using to
distribute some stuff
(a few articles I've written, possibly some fiction submitted
by others) on
my own site. I was wondering-how many of you have Adobe
Acrobat, which
reads .pdf files, or would be willing to download it (it's
free) so that
you could download text. Blue Murder, an online mag which I
sometimes write
for, is also distributed in this format. It's a really neat
format,
allowing publishers to distribute text, graphics, whatever,
maintaining the
layout, to anyone on any platform (Mac, Unix, Windows), and
the files are
usually quite small.
By the way, any fans of P.I. cheese owe a big debt to John
Carroll Daly.
It's definitely a good choice for the reading list, and, as
was pointed
out, it's easily available, and pretty cheaply, right on the
web in the
.pdf format.
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