The other day I unboxed a bunch of Detective Club triples. I picked up
one that had a Thomas Dewey novel, and the same volume had Hubbard's
novel _The Tower_. I had never read this author, and I found his style
and the story very interesting. I looked up information about him and
he is officially considered an author of Gothics. This particular
novel has noir elements and makes me very curious about the rest of
his novels. In case anybody is curious, the third novel in the volume
was a Robert Fish novel about a smuggles -- a thriller... Fish has
been a favorite of mine for such a long mine that my critical
faculties are nullified -- I just read him. All three novels are from
1967.
About Dewey: few authors are so timeless. I said recently that he was
of no lesser stature than Ross Macdonald. I will risk wrath and say
that he was better, that his stuff holds up better. Dewey is not
following the Chandler blueprint. If anything, Mac has more in common
with the Op than with Marlowe. Time for a Dewey revival?
Best,
pt
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