Al Guthrie wrote: Are you thinking of Lee Horsley's THE NOIR
THRILLER, maybe? Perhaps Lee Server sounds familiar as
co-editor of THE BIG BOOK OF NOIR?
************ That's it, Al. Thanks! I went through several of
my
"all about hardboiled or noir" books a last weekend and found
Vin Packer listed in more than half of them.
One of the big ones, either THE BIG BOOK OF NOIR or
maybe ENCYCLOPEDIA MYSTERIOUSA had a short but interesting
article by Meaker about the origins of SPRING FIRE. Meaker's
SPRING FIRE was a major inspiration to the lesbian genre.
There had been earlier entries, like THE WELL OF LONELINESS
and then some sleaze title like BARRACK BABES or something
like that, but SPRING FIRE was a major success. It was
supposedly written for the blue collar guys to drool over,
but Meaker says she got letters from hundreds of women.
I'll try and write some more about all that later.
Keep Joy Matkowski in your thoughts. She's going into the
hospital for a hip replacement on Oct.8.
miker
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