The Merle Constiner "Luther McGavock" stories are great!
Battered Silicon Press put out a collection of all his "Dean"
stories from Dime Detective. It's a bit pricey though. If
possible you should try Robert Reeves "Cellini Smith"
stories. If you need copies of the stories send me an email
off line and I can hook you up. Your Pal, Bill
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Juri Nummelin"
<juri.nummelin@p...> wrote:
> Frank Gruber's books about Johnny Fletcher are funny
and mildly
> hardboiled. Belongs to the screwboiled genre (love
that term!).
> From early fourties to early sixties, some of the
books were
> paperbacks.
>
> I don't find Henry Kane funny, but he tried to be.
Same with
> Craig Rice.
>
> David Dodge's books about Whit Whitney are strictly
screwboiled.
>
> In the pulps, I find the Mariano Mercado stories by
D.L. Champion
> very funny. Peter Paige had some very funny stories
in Dime
> Detective in the late fourties. And what about Seven
Anderton,
> whom Richard Moore has praised very
highly?
>
> Merle Constiner's Western novels from the fifties
and sixties are
> very tough and in their toughness there's a great
deal of humour.
> I haven't read any of Constiner's crime stories or
his sole novel
> of the genre, "Hearse of a Different
Color".
>
> Juri
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