In a message dated 9/16/03 4:18:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca writes:
<< Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:19:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Denton <
buff@pobox.com>
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Three recent purchases
JEOPARDY IS MY JOB (1962, Fawcett Gold Medal s1214), by
Stephen Marlowe.
A Chet Drum story. "Chester Drum flies to Spain to
investigate kidnaping
and murder among the expatriate set who drink always,
work never, and love
only themselves."
DRUM BEAT--BERLIN (1964, Fawcett Gold Medal k1420), by
Stephen Marlowe.
"Lorelei Graeber was a big, busty, brassy torch singer
who gave Chet Drum
his lumps the way no other woman ever had."
KILL HIM TWICE (1965, Pocket Books), by Richard S.
Prather. A Shell Scott
story. "She drew up her legs a mite, arranged them on
the divan, fluffed
her skin--that is, her, skin-colored peignoir--and
said, 'I really should
change into something more hostessy, if you've got the
time.' 'Baby, I
haven't got *that* much time.'"
Bill
>>
Turning off the music for a second, the Chet Drum books are a
lot of fun. Certainly, Prather is as well although I confess
that I have not read any of his once he moved to Pocket
Books.
My current reading is JO GAR'S CASEBOOK by Raoul Whitfield
and it is such a pleasure. A tip of the hat to Doug for
collecting the Jo Gar stories. I had read a few here and
there but having them all together allows for more sustained
study and enjoyment. Other writers have used exotic locales
and characters but there is a depth and believability to the
Jo Gar stories that may be due to Whitfield's personal
memories of the Philippines. Then again, he may have just
been better in casting the spell.
I have three of Whitfield's four stories in Adventure
magazine and am reading Jo Gar in preparation. Two of the
three are aviation stories but the third, and most
interesting in appearance, is not. I will report on them
later.
Richard Moore
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