The Brownes are very good. IMO, he and Roy Huggins have come
closest to replicating the Chandler style. The Taste of Ashes
is his The Long Goodbye.
I'm not much of a Bellem fan. Sort of fun in small doses, but
that's about it. I would definitely have substituted The
Blind Pig. It's a Fang Mulheisen novel, second in an
excellent hardboiled-but-funny series that, last time I
looked, was still going strong. I think we've hit the point
in American publishing where any series that lasts longer
than twenty years without hitting the bestseller lists is
worth reading.
DL
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:58:45 -0500
From: "Jeff Vorzimmer" <
jvorzimmer@austin.rr.com> Subject: Today's Finds
My local Half-Price had stacks of remaindered Dennis McMillan
books, so I picked up copies of the ones I didn't have. They
were:
Blue Murder - Robert Leslie Bellem 42 Days for Murder - Roger
Torrey The Blind Pig - Jon Jackson The Taste of Ashes -
Howard Browne Halo in Brass - Howard Browne
I had Halo in Brass, which I've read, and I passed on The
Blind Pig. Any comments on these books?
Jeff
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