Craig wrote:
"Jonathan Valin was one of my favorites. I say "was" because
he's apparently stopped writing detective novels. _Dead
Letter_ isn't perhaps the best of the Harry Stoner series . .
. But earlier entries like _The Lime Pit_ and _Natural
Causes_, as well as some of the later books in the series,
such as _Extenuating Circumstances_, are among the best of
the modern hardboiled detective books out there. Valin does a
great job, too, of bringing the city of Cincinnati, the
series' location, to vivid life."
I agree with this positive estimation of Valin's Harry Stoner
series
(and, for that matter, of Estleman's Macklin series), but the
anal part of me has to note that Dead Letter was actually one
of the earlier entries, between Lime Pit and Natural
Causes.
Mark
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