I picked up Dennis Dooley's DASHIELL HAMMETT (New York:
Frederick Ungar, 1984) a couple of days ago. It looks good,
and Mr. Duggan and Mr. Spurlock both recommended it in
February 2002, according to the archives.
It's part of a series called Recognitions, it seems, with one
Bruce Cassiday editing the mystery half (they also did SF).
There's RAYMOND CHANDLER by Jerry Speir, JOHN D. MACDONALD by
David Geherin, ROSS MACDONALD by Speir again, and SONS OF SAM
SPADE: THE PRIVATE EYE NOVEL IN THE 70S, by Geherin. There
are others on P.D. James, pre-Sherlockian detectives, and so
on listed as well, and they did a few more after 1984. It
looks like an interesting series. What are the Speir and
Geherin books like?
I searched Google on ("frederick ungar" recognitions) and the
first hit was from geek publisher Tim O'Reilly, who wrote
FRANK HERBERT for the SF part of the series. He talks a bit
about the publisher here:
http://tim.oreilly.com/sci-fi/herbert/intro.html
Bill
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