Mark asked:
>Today I picked up a Gold Medal paperback, I'm Cannon
-- For Hire by Curt
>Cannon. I looked it up when I got home and found out
Cannon is really
>Evan Hunter. So, has anyone read this?
And James (who was in high school when I was still a very
young boy in elementary school) wrote:
>There are two Curt Cannon paperbacks from Gold Medal.
The other one is
>called I Like 'Em Tough. They're both
great.
I agree... Mark, you're in for a treat!
And Kerry mentioned that Howard Engel's Benny
Cooperman's:
>a hard little nerd, deep down.
You betcha. On the outside, Benny's a schlubby little guy in
an oversized parka,whose biggest pleasure is a glass of milk
and a chopped egg sandwich, but inside lurks the heart of a
Marlowe. It's just so hard to tail someone when everyone
knows who you are... The CBC made two decent TV movies about
him (after doing a string of radio shows), all starring Saul
Rubineck (Daphne's fiancee from FRASIER). At the time, Saul
was a little too slim and fresh-scrubbed looking, to my
tastes, but now he'd be just about perfect. Maybe Engel
should start up the series again.
And speaking of Canadians, Neil Young's dad, Scott, wrote a
couple of books about an Inuk cop. As I remember, they were
sort of hard-boiled. At least they avoided some of those
pandering romanticized sterotypes about Canada that Ted Wood
used. And I should mention that Ted Wood , under the pen name
Jack Barnao, wrote two thrillers about a hardass bodyguard
that weren't bad, a sort of combo of Mike Hammer and Ken
Follet.
But, after reading Mordecai Richler's amazing BARNEY'S
VERSION, I'm more convinced than ever we should grab him, get
him drunk, slap him around, and get him to write THE GREAT
CANADIAN HARD-BOILED PRIVATE EYE NOVEL. DUDDY KRAVITZ, P.I.,
anyone?
--
Kevin Burton Smith The Thrilling Detective Web Site http://www.thrillingdetective.com
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