Etienne Borgers (freeweb@rocketmail.com)
Thu, 4 Nov 1999 02:42:38 -0800 (PST)
The author's name, Morse, seemed familiar to me but I did not
read '..Enchiladas' (by the way, first publication of this
novel seems to be in 1982).
So I double checked, and in fact I found I was looking for
one of his previous books, quite a long time ago, and could
not find it. That was: 'The Old Dicks'(1981) for which I red
very good reviews at the time, and I think the book even
received an Award. It's the story of an old PI
(seventy over)and it was done (as per the reviewers) with
some black humor in a novel with rather subtle
developments...
Seems that after this one, he did less elaborated
constructions in his other novels. So '..Enchiladas' could
effectively be tongue in cheek.
Morse published 'Slease'(1985) with the same PI character as
in Enchiladas, Sam Hunter.
In my documentation I found that Morse wrote also under
the alias of Runa Fairleight.
I however found no traces of his possible works after
1985.
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--- Jason Debly <DEBLY@nbnet.nb.ca>
wrote:
> Anybody ever read "The Big Enchilada" by L.A.
Morse?
> It was published around
> 1991 or '92, and is currently out of print.
I
> happen to think it is a gem of
> a hard boiled novel that makes the reader
wonder
> whether the author intended
> it as a satire of the genre or was dead
serious.
> Look for it in used book
> stores.
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