--- 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:
>
> - "Raoul Whitfield holds up better than Hemingway."
--Pete Hammil
>
> - "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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