--- Patrick King <
abrasax93@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I can think of several GREAT Hunter titles:
LAST
> SUMMER, NOBODY KNEW THEY WERE THERE, COME
WINTER,
> CRIMINAL CONVERSATIONS. If he wasn't committed
to
> the
> work he did under that name, he must have been
a
> natural at creating believable plots.
First of all, I was referring to the Matthew Hope books. If
you read any of the interviews available on the 'net, you'll
clearly see that Evan Hunter or Ed McBain or whomever wasn't
really happy with the books. As for Criminal Conversation --
that I did read -- it's apparent that we differ in taste. In
my book, McBain found a niche and worked it well almost to
the end. I also think that the last two 87th Precinct books
border on the unreadable. If I wasn't a fan I never would
have finished them. Evan Hunter just isn't my cup of tea.
They're just not interesting books to me.
William
None of them
> are
> shoddy, tossed off books. He grabbs me from
the
> first
> sentence and holds on. I tend to read them
fast,
> too.
> Put off doing other things and just read the
book.
>
> It's true the last two 87th stories weren't
very
> good,
> but they weren't awful, either. They just
didn't
> hold
> me the way he usually does. Hunter/McBain is one
of
> my
> favorite writers. He's on a par with Leonard
and
> Rendell for me.
>
> Patrick King
>
>
>
>
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