>By the way, what happened to the idea of each of us
collecting a "best
>of" list of crime fiction books? I have a draft of
sorts, not definitive
>yet. What's nice about this is that it made me take a
look at what I
>have and what I remember. Also, to weed out a couple
dozen books that
>don't cut the mustard (or that, at the very least, I
never want to read
>again).
>
>To avoid clogging up the list, maybe someone should
volunteer to receive
>and collect these "best of" lists and keep them
available somewhere (the
>FAQ?). I am not volunteering myself because this fall
I have a very busy
>schedule with deadlines and so on.
Well, if it's agreeable with y'all, I'd be more than happy to
compile a
list on my site (actually, one of my future topics for the
poll was going
to be more or less on this). We could call it The Rara-Avis
Favorite Crime
Fiction Books, or something. Of course, I'd plug the hell out
of this list,
and everything, and give credit where it's due...but it might
be more
appropriate on the Rara-Avis site. It's up to you,
Bill....
What a coincidence about The Singing Detective! My local
oldies video store
just got acopy, and I was mentioning to someone on this list
in a private
e-mail my intention to rent it one rainy weekend, and finally
get to see
the whole thing. Which, if my math is right, comes in at
about seven hours
(6 tapes at 70 minutes each-at least , part one was 70
minutes). It's in a
very nice boxed set, by the way; jumps right up off the
shelf. And don't
worry about this being a musical...nobody's ever going to
mistake this for
Cats or some such Andrew Lloyd Weenie dribble....
And the first singing detective was probably Richard Diamond,
on American
radio, played by Dick "Murder My Sweet" Powell, who closed
each show with a
song....
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Kevin Smith
Back to school and time to hit the books...the comic books,
that is...
Private eyes and comics in this month's P.I. Poll on The
Thrilling
Detective Web Site
http://www.colba.net/~kvnsmith/thrillingdetective/
Now with fresh fiction monthly....
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