I picked up several volumes of someone I'd not heard of or
read, Janwillem van de Wetering. I was attracted by the
Japanese aspect of one of the books, but it appears that most
of them are set in The Netherlands. (The titles are "Death of
a Hawker," "The Japanese Corpse," "Inspector Saito's Small
Satori," "The Corpse on the Dike," and "The Blond Baboon."
Are there others?)
Also found at the same shop: Woolrich's "I Married a Dead
Man," the 1987
"Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction," and one that
caught my attention particularly because its title, "A Cowboy
Detective," pretty much captures what I do for a living (as
an actor, that is--although usually I play one or the other,
not both). It appears to be a true-life memoir by one Charles
A. Siringo, originally published in 1912, so I suspect its HB
qualities are passing, at best.
Jim Beaver
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