On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Kevin Burton Smith wrote:
> I also think "She Didn't Come Home," the story Juri
read, is just a
> classic P.I. short story, well worth searching out.
Fortunately it's
> been anthologized almost as much as Chandler's" Red
Rain".
Well, actually I thought that the basic idea is not very
believable. This happens to meeverytime when the
SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT
guilty one hires the PI to clean up his/her mess.
> Oh, and Juri, if you're going to read Delores
Hitchen, read SLEEP
> WITH SLANDER and SLEEP WITH STRANGERS, both
featuring private eye Jim
> Sader. These are just great, under-rated reads,
easily on a par with
> Brackett's NO GOOD FROM A CORPSE or Evans/Browne's
Paul Pine books.
I've heard good things about those, but alas they are not
translated.
"Footsteps in the Night" was (as the only Hitchens in this
language).
Juri
-- # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 23 Aug 2001 EDT