Dick,
Re your comment below:
> Just to show that no good idea hasn't already
been
> explored, there's a
> very tough novel based on the Oz legend (Baum's,
not
> HBO's) -- Robert
> McCammon's "Gone South," in which an
Agent
> Orange-poisoned Vietnam vet,
> blamed for a murder not entirely his fault,
runs
> from the cops into a
> Louisiana swamp. There he picks up an assortment
of
> weird and damaged
> fellow travelers all seeking a mystical swamp
witch
> who can possibly
> "cure" them all. It's a terrific book from a
writer
> who seems to have
> done the unthinkable -- stopped publishing
while
> still hitting the
> bestseller lists.
That reminds me, didn't I hear the Fidelity from your novel
SLEEPING DOG was supposed to be Dorothy reconceived as a
character in a hard-boiled PI novel?
JIM DOHERTY
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