tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290476670691353414.post3271119798127390413..comments2024-03-06T04:04:24.597-08:00Comments on The Trap of Solid Gold: "Fatal Accident"Steve Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15863138617383626261noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290476670691353414.post-50786527189040613492018-03-21T14:41:34.075-07:002018-03-21T14:41:34.075-07:00No worries, man! The same anthology also features ...No worries, man! The same anthology also features another great JDM short story, "Crime of Omission". As Pronzini says, ... "impeccable characterization and his knack for creating suspense, it outclasses the vast majority of longer, more complex pulp fiction." You gotta love Pronzini. I just love his "Nameless Dectective" stories! :)J.J. Waltersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290476670691353414.post-62466351807808628772018-03-21T13:08:56.394-07:002018-03-21T13:08:56.394-07:00Great to hear from you JJ! Thanks for the informat...Great to hear from you JJ! Thanks for the information... I though I had tracked down all of the JDM stories anthologized by others... obviously not.Steve Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15863138617383626261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290476670691353414.post-36798593381323840152018-03-21T11:58:32.740-07:002018-03-21T11:58:32.740-07:00Hi Steve! It's been a while! Great to see your...Hi Steve! It's been a while! Great to see your excellent JDM blog active again! :)<br /><br />I just wanted to add that "Fatal Accident" was anthologized in The Arbor House Treasury of Detective & Mystery Stories From The Great Pulps (1983 by Bill Pronzini). It features a nice intro from Pronzini, where he mentions Babette Rosmond and this interesting line: "It (Fatal Accident) is also distinguished as the first piece of fiction to use a form of a certain well-known (nowadays) piece of automotive equipment." He also mentions that the story is "an excellent example both of the type of stories Rosmond published and the type MacDonald wrote: lean prose, excellent characterization, a tightly knit, nonformula plot (and, as a bonus, a decidedly unsterotypical portrait of a working policeman)." :)J.J. Waltersnoreply@blogger.com