> . . . we've got a terrific hard-boiled detective
novel called HOUSE DICK
> about
> skullduggery in a Washington D.C. hotel, written by
none other than...E.
> Howard Hunt. Yes, *that* E. Howard Hunt. (If you're
too young to
> remember
> him, look him up online. Just know that though he
achieved notoriety for
> other
> activities, he was also one of the most prolific and
consistently engaging
> crime
> writers of the paperback era.)
I just got Charles' email and noticed near the bottom that
he's publishing a Howard Hunt novel and it just so happens
I'm reading Hunt's The Violent Ones. Irrelevant cover and
title, but surprisingly engaging. It's about a guy who beats
up his wife's lover and paralyzes him and is sentenced to 2
years in prison, gets out early on parole, but then leaves
for France at a friend's behest (how he can leave the country
while on parole is never explained) and gets involved in a
plot to steal gold left over from the war
(it was written in 1950).
This is an early Gold Medal title that I see a lot of and,
judging from what I can tell of its reprint history, it must
have sold over a million copies.
Jeff
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