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...present state of mystery writing does not foretoken a renaissance. By the customary criteria applied to genre fiction--the number of active practitioners whose works have graduated to mainstream best-seller lists or to critical appraisal as "serious" literature--the mystery can offer only Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald and perhaps Julian Symons. Dozens of purported successors to Christie have been proclaimed, largely on the basis of gender, but none has sustained anything like her productivity or cunning. Every publishing season brings a promising debut, but the vast majority of these writers never again produce a book with the freshness...
...game player,” MacDonald says. “The bigger the game, the better he played. Teddy loved the big games. He got himself up for the big games and he always produced...
...couldn’t get him to stop talking,” MacDonald says. “He would always be talking, talking, talking. Sometimes he?...
...We’re all going over to congratulate him,” MacDonald says. “And he’s just saying, “I’m a PTP’er! I’m a PTP’er! I’m a prime-time player! It was so Teddy, such a funny thing...
...Teddy would always get such a kick out of shooting the puck high on the regular goalies and even the usual goalies,” MacDonald says. “He just thought that was the funniest thing going. He’d always be shooting at the goalies. I think Chuckie Hughes could tell about 40 stories about Teddy hitting him in the head with the puck...