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'The Train' is one of his best. Really simple story but incredibly evocative of it time and place (France 1940).

One reviewer described it: "Simenom is a master who has been waiting for his masterpiece. This is it." (or something like that).
 
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Conan The Barbarian , by Robert E Howard who wrote a ton of paperbacks in the mid 30's and westerns as well .

All the Best , Fashion Frank

Great choice! I read so many of his as a child, a teen, and an adult. A lot of his stories have been reissued in recent years. Although Conan is what he is typically known for, he wrote so much more.
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cw3pa

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I too, read most of the Conan short stories when I was a teenager. I still have most of the of the paperbacks around somewhere. They have have the Frank Frazetta art on the covers. I think they sold for less then a dollar apiece when I bought them new. Have to revisit Conan one of these days.
 

fashion frank

One Too Many
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Woonsocket Rhode Island
Conan Rule's

I too, read most of the Conan short stories when I was a teenager. I still have most of the of the paperbacks around somewhere. They have have the Frank Frazetta art on the covers. I think they sold for less then a dollar apiece when I bought them new. Have to revisit Conan one of these days.

I must agree, I love reading Conan and my man cave is loaded with all of his books , I have both of the swords from both movies ( and alot of other swords) and posters of conan and also signed prints from Frank Frazetta !

All the Best , Fashion Frank
 
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'The Train' is one of his best. Really simple story but incredibly evocative of it time and place (France 1940).

One reviewer described it: "Simenom is a master who has been waiting for his masterpiece. This is it." (or something like that).

He is a master of creating atmosphere. I have The Train but have yet to read it. I tend to ration out Simenon, Chandler, MacDonald, Goodis, and a few others. Sadly, at some point I will have read everything of theirs that was published and with nothing new to look forward to, will have to start over.
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hatguy1

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If interested in a private eye novel, "The Wichita Mysteries" is a trilogy based in late 1940s and early 1950s Wichita, Kansas when the defense plants, movie theaters and bowling alleys went 3 shifts. It's a great private eye novel, well researched in the local culture etc of the time - the zoo was in Riverside Park, the local AAA baseball team was the Braves and so on. Written in the early 1990s I think by Gaylord Dold I think, it makes some interesting fedora-wearing/vintage-based reading.
 
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Did you get the bacon bookmark I sent you? :p

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