<<I've been interested to read about the Aarons and
Hamilton books.
I've seen both in stores and will pick some up soon. They
both got
published by Gold Medal, as have a lot of other hardboiled
writers.
Are most Gold Medals hardboiled, or in that general vein?
Would I go
not far wrong just by picking one up if I wasn't sure I'd
like it?
>>
Back when I was one of the editors of a magazine called "The
Scream Factory",
we were lucy enough to have Ed Gorman write us a long piece
on the authors
that he felt were the "key GM writers." That article has been
reprinted many
times since (including within Gorman's new "The Big Book of
Noir."
Briefly, the A-1 list included:
Peter Rabe, John D. MacDonald, Malcolm Braly, Charles
Williams, Dan Marlowe,
Jim Thompson, David Goodis, Wade Miller, Donald Hamilton, Vin
Packer, Gil
Brewer, Day Keene, Harry Whittington, Edward Aarons, Bruno
Fischer, Lionel
White, Marvin Albert, and Robert Colby.
The article also listed the titles of three or four essential
novels per
writer. This was just one article in a special "Dark
Suspense" issue, which
also included Max Allan Collins on Jim Thompson and the cult
classic Black
Wings Has My Angel; an overview of Robert Bloch's early crime
novels;
interviews with Barry Gifford and Andrew Vachss; and a Black
Lizard checklist.
Anyone interested in purchasing a copy can e-mail me for
details.
Peter Enfantino
Deadline Press
bare*bones
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