RARA-AVIS: Re: More on Whitfield

From: jacquesdebierue ( jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com)
Date: 17 Feb 2008


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Mark D. Nevins" <nevins_mark@...> wrote:
>
>
> I liked these two blurbs, from the No Exit Press editions of Whitfield:
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> - "Raoul Whitfield holds up better than Hemingway." --Pete Hammil
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> - "Here are 280 pages of naked action, pounded into tough compactness
> by staccato, hammer-like writing." -- Dashiell Hammett (on GREEN ICE)
>

Let me add that Whitfield is well represented in the recent big book of pulps. For those who don't know this writer, it's an obviously recommendable introduction (the story _About Kid Deth_, in particular, is a great one from Black Mask).

Best,

mrt



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