--- Jim Beaver <
jumblejim@prodigy.net> wrote:
> Anyone know anything about William O'Farrell?
I
> picked up his "Thin Edge of
> Violence." Wondering if it's worth the read.
I
> don't know O'Farrell or his
> work.
>
Definitely! One of his best novels...
O'Farrel is one of these good authors from the "second level"
in the hierarchy of value (and this is not pejorative!)for
HB/Noir. Another very good read amongst the fifteen or so
novels he produced is his first one: REPEAT PERFORMANCE
(1942).
2 or 3 of his novels were under the pseudonym of:
William Grew.
He produced quite a lot of short stories, but I do not
remember to have read some- one of which won an Edgar.
O'Farrel died in 1962.
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