> In regards to the recent Parker thread, does anyone
else remember an old
> series character
> named Earl Drake? I think the author's name is Dan
Marlowe. The first
> two (The Name of
> the Game is Death & One Endless Hour) were
pretty good first-person crime
> novels. After
> that they petered out into standard espionage fare,
although I think one
of
> the later novels
> (Operation Flashpoint) won an Edgar. But to me, the
espionage novels were
> just more
> water over the same teabag.
I'm a huge Dan Marlowe fan - but I couldn't agree more. He
wrote a good number of other hb novels that were not part of
this series - but after the two you mention, the Operation...
novels were substandard at best.
Ron Clinton
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