"Forstater, Mathew" wrote:
> I picked up the first Richard Stark, liked it a lot,
and just went and
> picked up the second. i imagine I will breeze
through the series.
Sadly, Mysterious Press is reprinting slowly. It also seems
that the later books in the series (before the 1974-1996
hiatus) are very hard to find -- it took me a couple years to
track down PLUNDER SQUAD and BUTCHERS MOON at reasonable
prices. I also noted that all copies of PLUNDER SQUAD and all
but one BUTCHERS MOON were 'lost' from my local library
system
(for a city with a population of 2.5 million). The copy of
BUTCHERS still in the system is in the reference library, and
hence not available for loan. I am sure these losses have
nothing to do with the fact that ex-libris copies of those
books (even reprints) fetch around $75 US on ebay. In any
case, Mysterious, having just put out THE SCORE in their
current reprint series, is still eleven books away from
getting to BUTCHERS MOON, which is arguably the best
book.
Stewart
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