Jim wrote: "In fact, since the phrase "better corpses"
appears several times in those connected "town tamer"
stories, I suspect it may even have BEEN published as a
novel, in England under the title BETTER CORPSES, but I'm not
absolutely sure of this."
Jim, You are correct, sir. "Better Corpses" was one of the
last Race Williams novels - though not published in the U.S.
I've read the serialized version in "The Adventures of Race
Williams" but have yet to buy the whole novel (it's available
at the VIntage Library as an e-book as are several of Daly's
other books and that seems to be the only source for Daly's
stuff). But that's not the only town-tamer story Daly did. In
the same collection, he did it again with "City of Blood" but
I have yet to be able to get through that one (it's horrid).
As (apparently) the only Carroll John Daly fan on this list,
I'm of the opinion that he could have been a contender if he
really worked at it. The other four stories in the
"Adventures" collection are pretty good, and "The Tag
Murders", "Tainted Power", and "The Third Murderer" are
pretty good as well (bad dialogue and clunky writing aside,
but nothing worse than the recent "Star Wars" movies).
--Brian--
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