Patrick,
I could not disagree more with you about the Continental Op
which I consider some of the best crime fiction written. Btw.
You left out Red Harvest which has made a number of best 100
book lists, including Time Magazines.
--Dave
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King
<abrasax93@...> wrote:
>
> All of Cain's books are interesting and most of
them
> are great novels. While Hammett's The Thin Man &
The
> Maltese Falcon are great books, the others tell
the
> breakneck speed he wrote at. The Glass Key, The
Dane's
> Curse are pretty awful in my opinion, and
the
> Continental Op is a cartoon. I would say Cain's
only
> equal is Jim Thompson. They're, of couse,
much
> different stylists, but their quaility is
consistent
> from book to book.
>
> Patrick King
> --- Dave Zeltserman <dz@...> wrote:
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