Never heard of him, Bill. I'll put him on my lengthening
to-buy list. That's before my time in Philly, except for a
trip to the Connie Mack (father of the RW senator from
Florida) Stadium neighborhood, but it was interesting times.
The city flipped from Republican stronghold to totally
Democratic almost overnight. Square miles of homes and
factories for the working class were gutted to create
Independence Mall, downtown upper-class neighborhoods, and
public housing highrises for the displaced. Levittown was
born.
Joy, blessing all the writers
> Let me put in a good word for Carney Wilde, the
narrator of a series of
> mysteries by Bart Spicer. I'm admirer of Spicer's
work, and I think the
> Wilde series is a very good one. Wilde is a private
eye based in
Philadelphia.
> He leaves the city in a couple of books, but if you
want some very good
> writing about 1950s Philadelphia, Spicer is your
guy.
>
> Bill Crider
>
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