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Mrriter@aol.com> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002
10:10 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: The Only Gold Medals In My
House
> I looked over my shelves and found these five
GMs:
>
> Death for Mr. Big, John Gonzales 204
> Assignment - Carlotta Cortez, Edward S. Aarons
834
> Nothing In Her Way, Charles Williams
k1289
> The Quick Red Fox, John D. MacDonald
d1610
> Pure Sweet Hell, Malcolm Douglas 972
>
> I've read only the Williams book, which, as I
recall, is a complicated
> pay-back caper featuring "the most fascinating
confidence woman in modern
> suspense fiction." I remember that it held my
attention while I read it
but
> now I can't dig up any details.
>
> The only other comment about these books that I have
is that the women on
the
> covers of The Quick Red Fox and Pure Sweet Hell have
a lot in common--a
> healthy dose of cleavage, tight capri pants (I think
that's what they were
> called), high heels, and they both are sitting
spread-eagled in a very
> unladylike pose.
>
> Anybody have something more meaningful to say about
these, or maybe a
> recommendation about which one(s) I really should
read this month?
>
> Manuel Ramos
> MOONY'S ROAD TO HELL, September, 2002
> www.manuelramos.com
Manuel -- I've read only the Aarons, which I remember as
being a good Sam Durell book (but most of the Durells are
good), and the JDM, which I also liked. I prefer the earlier,
shorter McGee novels, like this one, to the later, longer
ones. John Gonzales was a pseudonym for Robert Terrall, one
of the authors who ghosted Mike Shayne novels as Brett
Halliday, as mentioned earlier today. I haven't read any of
the books he wrote as Gonzales, but I've read all of his Mike
Shaynes and some of the Ben Gates books he wrote as Robert
Kyle, and I found them all to be readable, relatively
entertaining PI novels, but no more than that.
Best, James
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