Hi guys:
I always loved the modified house names, particularly
A.Shole.
Rob and Curt, the best Block (and Westlake) pseudonym guide I
know is a Lynn Munroe catalog that's probably at least 10
years old. Lynn's a great guy, he's got a website, you can
track him down. The Earl Kemp zine is really interesting, but
I haven't read enough. I'm now out of the loop in sleaze
paperback collecting, but back before a kid and a mortgage I
went wild, and I probably own close to a thousand. The best
dealer by far is Chris Eckhoff (who doesn't have a web site).
If collectible condition is not a concern, reading copies are
affordable. Hell, I should go through my duplicates, maybe we
can deal offlist.
To get this on-topic, I'll post something more substantive
about Block
(if I find some free time). My contention is that the early
Scudder books (the first three) have sleaze roots. 8 Million
Ways to Die is where the series finds itself. And the raunchy
parts of Small Town show that sex is still a major part of
Block's oeuvre. If I use that word, it becomes
literature.
Bob V in NJ, who's hotmail name is midnightreader
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Curt Purcell"
<curtpurcell@...> wrote:
>
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Robert Elkin
<rictusaporia@> wrote:
> >
> > PASSION MADMAN, LB603 [1963], as by "Andrew
Shole," the later
> version of the Greenleaf "Shaw" name. Done by
William Coons. Same
> lead character, though I do not at the moment
remember it.
>
> I have both a Shaw and a Shole in my to-read stacks,
but I don't think
> either is a Block (*none* of the Sholes are,
right?--and the Shaw
> isn't on the list of likely Blocks that Earl Kemp
posted).
>
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