AP,
Re your questions below
"1) What's your Fave WM/WM title, and why...??"
Favorite Miller, GUILTY BYSTANDER. I liked the notion of a
hard-drinking PI who actually was affected, and not in a
comical way, by what he drank. The idea of an alcoholic
detective who cleans himself up, almost overnight, to come to
the aid of a loved one will be recycled years later in Mickey
Spilane's "comeback" novel, THE GIRL HUNTERS.
Favorite Masterson: A toss-up between 711
-OFFICER NEEDS HELP (aka WARNING SHOT) and PLAY LIKE YOU'RE
DEAD. The first is a procedural about a cop who gets into a
questionable shooting when the gun he says the man he shot
pulled on him turns up missing. It sort of segues into a PI
story when, suspended, he has to work on his own to prove his
innocence. Also made a great movie with David Jansen.
The second is a more straightforward cop novel dealing,
presciently, with the problem of custodial abductions, as a
tough cop, angling for a promotion, must track down an
unbalanced father who's taken his son from his ex-wife, the
custodial parent. Strongly suspenseful, with a villain both
frightening and sympathetic.
In a way, neither of my "Masterson" choices count, since they
were written after the death of Bill Miller. When Bob Wade
was left, "Wade Miller" was retired, and Wade carried on
alone, most often as
"Masterson."
"2) Which WM/WM title would you most like to see back in
print, and why...??"
Miller's DEADLY WEAPON, a one-off PI novel (though sharing
some of the same supporting characters as the Thursday
series) that was their first novel.
Masterson's A HAMMER IN HIS HAND, perhaps the last actual
collaboration between Wade and Miller, features a policewoman
on the trail of a serial killer decades before Thomas Harris
wrote THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.
Main reason for both. I've never seen either of them, though
I've heard about them for years, and would love the chance to
read them.
JIM DOHERTY
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