Three-part message:
1. I just finished Charles Alverson's "Fighting Back" (1973)
and found it a quite satisfactory revenge book, with a little
bit compulsory
"Godfather" stuff in it. But Alverson ends the book as a
Shakespearean tale about the revenge's futileness. I've
noticed somewhere the character name Joe Goodey alongside
with Alverson - what is he, a P.I.?
2. Now I'm reading Michael Avallone's "Mannix", based on the
sixties TV series. Is it average Avallone or below average or
above average?
3. I posted a message about one Francis K. Allan some months
ago. There were no answers. Now I know more: He wrote for the
pulps and digests in the fourties and the fifties, in a
rather Woolrichian vein, telling about coincidents and fears
and shabby hotels. Not very original, bot not very bad,
either. He had two novels in the fourties and for some reason
he came back with at least one book, "Death in Gentle Grove"
in 1976. I just finished it - well, I couldn't get through
it, because it was so boring. Peyton Place -like milieu and
not much happening.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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