RARA-AVIS: RE: Prather's successor

From: Dick Lochte ( dlock@ix.netcom.com)
Date: 12 Jun 2000


 It's good to see attention paid to Richard S. Prather. The Shell Scott books are in a league all their own - great dialogue, hilarious situations and well-constructed mysteries that a few of today's "hardboiled" writers ought to study. There is one writer who I think comes close to matching Prather's humor-detection mix - Warren Murphy. Has there been any discussion of his "Digger" and "Trace" books on this list? And if not, why not?

Lochte

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