Re: RARA-AVIS: Harold Q. Masur

From: Bob Toomey ( btoomey@javanet.com)
Date: 09 May 2000


Juri Nummelin wrote:
>
> I visited a used book store this afternoon and bought some books.
> Money ran out and I had to leave behind Harold Q. Masur's "The Big
> Money", which was, I believe, a first edition from 1954. It was
> hardcover and by Simon and Schuster. Is it worth buying for 30 marks
> (app. five dollars)? The book was in a good condition, if not very
> good.

Haven't read THE BIG MONEY, but other Masur books I have read, about a lawyer named Jordan, are very good, sort of literate, light hardboiled in the manner of Archie Goodwin minus the big guy.

BobT

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