Bill Crider said: I'd go with TOBACCO ROAD if only because
it's the one that started the whole "backwoods" trend. I did
an article once for THE JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE. I called
it "See What the Boys in the Backwoods Will Have," and it was
all about the kind of books that followed TOBACCO ROAD. Harry
Whittington wrote a lot of those, but my favorites are the
ones in the "Cabin Road" series by John Faulkner (all Gold
Medals).
************** Thanks, Bill. That's the one I'm going for. I
was at Barnes and Nobles last week and was pleased that they
had them both. Them darn trade paperbacks are
expensive!
And I've seen some black-and-white's of the covers from one
or two of John Faulkner's Gold Medals in HARDBOILED AMERICA.
It was only a month or so ago that I found out he was William
Faulkner's brother. Them Faulkner boys loved that poor white
trash theme, didn't they? ;-)
I noticed Mario or Al mentioned your Whittington article in
the BIG BOOK OF NOIR. I assume that's the same one that's in
MURDER OFF THE RACK. And from the brief scan I did of your
Whittington piece, I think I read that he has written over a
hundred novels? Darn! That's knocking em out!
miker
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