Word: authors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stench of the dandies at court was almost as overpowering. The plumed and perfumed male of the era might choose from 50 shades of stockings with which to drape his shapely shanks. Some of the morosely fanciful hues: dying monkey, resuscitated corpse, lost time, mortal sin, and (says Author West primly) "others too squalid for polite pages...
...INSPECTOR, by Helen Reilly (207 pp.; Random House; $2.95), the author's 32nd published novel, is peopled with stylish, upper-middle-class Manhattanites who yearn for just those few extra thousands a year. This sort of yearning leads to murder for profit. The romantic side of the plot, offering the heroine a wide choice of elegant men, documents the complexity of a woman's mind and heart. The case is wrapped up by Inspector McKee, nagged by his boss the commissioner, who, in turn, is nagged by political pressures. Expertly tooled and shined, soundly constructed...
...theme. The younglove interest is entrusted to a boy who seems to be losing his wits (his mother died in a mental institution) anoa pretty juvenile delinquent who is in danger of making a habit of motel weekends with married men. The murder victim is a gigolo-like blackmailer. Author Quentin is a skilled carpenter at knocking together a neat puzzle and in sending the reader haring off down a dozen false trails. But it is hard to be sympathetically involved with any of this yarn's not-very-winning people. The attractive character is Lieut. Trant of Homicide...
...through the badlands ends in heroics and madness, stewed rattlesnake and deep swallows of horses' blood. Finally, after many a deadly duel in the sun. comes a love feast among the minorities, which lifts this dryly authentic western onto a surprisingly high moral plain. English-born, Saskatchewan-raised Author Prebble richly deserves his new-won certificate as member of the Western Writers of America; his Indians have a minimum of wood about them and his soldiers a minimum...
Cromwell failed, says Author Macken, because of "little men" like Dominick MacMahon, who proved that the human back is stronger than the oppressor's whip. Surviving the siege of Drogheda-during which his wife is murdered and one child struck dumb-stubborn Dominick dodges his way through sacked and smoking Ireland accompanied by a saintly priest, helped by Irish guerrillas and making the customary hairbreadth escapes from gun and gallows. Author Macken brings such sweeping lyricism to this flight as to make it seem that plucky Dominick is battling his way the length of Siberia instead of the mere...