Jim Doherty wrote: This was perhaps a consequence of its
first appearing as a serial in BLACK MASK. In fact, if memory
serves, the serial installments were (as with RED HARVEST,
THE DAIN CURSE, and a number of other novels that first
appeared in BLACK MASK) writeen so that each could stand on
its own as a short story, which may have necessitated
"summing up" scenes in each installment to clue readers in to
the fact that the supposedly
"autonomous" stories were part of a larger whole.
*********** I'll bet that's right. If that's the case he did
a good job with it. Other books pieced together out of short
stories sometimes have a tendency to be episodic. Hemingway's
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT and Gores's CASES come to mind.
Whitfield might do more rehashing than I thought necessary,
but the continuity was there.
miker
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