RE: Ted White's recommendation of Frank McAuliffe's Mandrell
trilogy:
"I'd like to recommend Frank McAuliffe's Augustus Mandrell,
the
killer-for-hire narrator of OF ALL THE BLOODY CHEEK, RATHER A
VICIOUS
GENTLEMAN and FOR MURDER I CHARGE MORE. They were published
between
1965 and 1971 by Ballantine, and had at least two editions
(w/
different covers), the second being a "uniform" edition of
numbered
volumes "in the Commissions of Augustus Mandrell." Mandrell
is an
incredibly arrogant murderer for hire whose stories start
right before
WW2 in Britain."
Just a bit of trivia y'all might find interesting. The third
book in
the series, *For Murder I Charge More*, won the 1971 MWA
Edgar in the
category of Best Original Paperback Novel, despite the fact
that it
wasn't a novel but a collection of short stories. - Jim
Doherty
--UNS_gsauns2_2976779437--
#
# 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/.