--- William Denton <
buff@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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:
> - 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!"
This is truly a marvelous book. Stumbled across it myself
some time ago. One of the best pi novels of the
Seventies.
doug
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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