I don't believe I've ever read a non-Archer Ross Mac, and I
think I'll start with this one. Thanks! Joy
"Ed Lynskey" <
e_lynskey@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I posted about my reading Ross Mac's MEET ME AT THE
MORGUE
> (1953)
> a bit back. Howard Cross, the protag, is a probation
officer.
> This makes him sort of a cop but not exactly one
(like PI Lew
> Archer). The setting is LA and RM invokes credible,
crisp
> descriptions of it. I always like that, being tugged
back into
> a time and place . . . it adds meat to any novel.
MORGUE is
> also pre-Archer and I haven't read THE DARK TUNNEL
yet, but the
> writing IMO was striking and competent.
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