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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "jacquesdebierue"
<jacquesdebierue@...> wrote:
>
> I highly recommend the work of Harold Adams,
effective, succinct
> hardboiled novels. The stories take place in small
towns of the
> Midwest. A wonderful writer.
>
> Best,
>
> mrt
I also recommend Harold Adams whose novels most often
featured Carl Wilcox, an ex-convict turned amateur detective
who in the later books collects a fee. The setting is during
America's Great Depression in a small town in South Dakota
where Wilcox's parents run a hotel.
Is Adams still writing and publishing? For a while there he
was a "canary in the coal mine" for mystery writers as a fine
writer dropped by his various publishers at the first sign of
a market downturn. He would be in his eighties now, I'd
guess, having met him once years ago.
A fine writer.
Richard Moore
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