The book sale season has hit the colleges at the University
of Toronto, and I was at two this week. I didn't see much
hardboiled in with the mysteries, and no stacks of Gold
Medals, but I found some good stuff:
- Four Travis McGees I don't have, which I need to fill in
gaps: A DEADLY SHADE OF GOLD, A PURPLE PLACE FOR DYING, THE
LONG LAVENDER LOOK and THE DREADFUL LEMON SKY.
- OPERATION OVERKILL (a British, renamed, edition of THE NAME
OF THE GAME IS DEATH) by Dan J. Marlowe.
- I CAN"T STOP RUNNING, Edward S. Aarons, not a Durell
story.
- DEAD SKIP, Joe Gores, the first DKA book.
- ANATOMY OF A KILLER, Peter Rabe. I haven't read anything by
Rabe yet.
- COCAINE AND BLUE EYES, by fellow bird Fred Zackel. I read
Mr. Zackel's remembrance of Ross Macdonald a few days ago,
and discovered that he'd written this (which I only knew as
an O.J. Simpson movie I'd never seen). This afternoon I saw
it between a Ngaio Marsh book and one of those serial killer
bestsellers. The Boston Globe said, "A fresh new writer in
the Ross MacDonald tradition!" Ross MacDonald said, "Powerful
... I recommend it with pleasure!" Time said, "A spectrum of
sex, aging flower children, Mafia money, houseboat life in
Sausalito, booze, barbituates, bitterness, incest and greed
... as nerve-rattling as a full-throttle auto chase!"
- A beat-up Dell mapback edition of THE CONTINENTAL OP, by
Hammett. Has four stories and an intro by "Ellery Queen." The
map is of downtown San Francisco and pinpoints locations used
in three of the stories, including "Fly Paper," which has
that classic first line, "It was a wandering daughter job." I
like the mapbacks.
There were a dollar each, and a Canadian one at that.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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