Thanks, Ed.
Kersh is nothing short of stunning. Weird, inventive,
playful, absurd and often over-the-top, but that's what I
like. Hell of an underappreciated and hugely diverse
writer.
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: Edward Pettit
To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: early noir:
British
The Nicholas Blake Treasury contains:
Thou shell of death., Beast must die., Corpse in
the snowman., Question of proof., There's trouble brewing.,
Smiler with the knife., Murder with malice., Minute for
murder., Head of a traveler.,
I've just ordered a copy through my
library.
And I just finished Kersh's Night and the City a
couple nights ago. Fantastic with spots of bizarre, surreal
writing. Sometimes his style is so over the top to be funny.
But mostly it just grips you by the throat. What a
treat.
Ed
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al_guthrie65 <
allan@allanguthrie.co.uk> wrote:
James Curtis THE GILT KID (1936)
Didn't realise Nicholas Blake (Cecil Day Lews, by
the way, not C S
Lewis) had written a book based on THE REVENGER'S
TRAGEDY. Have to
get that.
Al
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Jay Gertzman
<jgertzma@...>
wrote:
>
> Can anyone add to these noirish titles by British
writers, c. 1930-
40?
>
> --James Hadley Chase, _No Orchids for Miss
Blandish_
> --Gerald Kersh, _Night and the City_
> --Francis Iles, _Before the Fact_
> --Nicholas Blake (C S Lewis), _The Beast Must Die_;
_Thou Shell of
> Death_ (based on _The Revengers Tragedy_, a
Jacobean revenge play)
> --D H Lawrence, _The Lovely Lady_
(novella)
> --Marie Belloc Lowndes, _The Lodger_ (1913); _The
Story of Ivy_
>
.
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endeavour.
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