Comments on: Wild Turkey by Michael Hemmingson (Forge, 2001) http://vintagesleazepaperbacks.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/wild-turkey-by-michael-hemmingson-forge-2001/ A Blog About Vintage Soft Core Paperbacks Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:30:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: vintagesleazepaperbacks http://vintagesleazepaperbacks.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/wild-turkey-by-michael-hemmingson-forge-2001/#comment-328 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:23:44 +0000 http://vintagesleazepaperbacks.wordpress.com/?p=1548#comment-328 No, never heard of the Simon book but I’ll check it out. The original title of this novel was AFFAIR with I told it to Forge but it seemed too dull and generic, so I changed it. I was planning on a series, the next would be WHITE RUSSIAN and then BLACK VELVET, but my editor left the company before WILD TURKEY even hit the streets, so, abandoned… and less than stellar sales…

A condensed version of WHITE RUSSIAN is in the anthology, THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF LEGAL THRILLERS.

]]> By: dox http://vintagesleazepaperbacks.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/wild-turkey-by-michael-hemmingson-forge-2001/#comment-327 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:11:54 +0000 http://vintagesleazepaperbacks.wordpress.com/?p=1548#comment-327 Took your advice and checked this one out. Hey, I liked it! BTW, did you know about the book with the same title by Roger L. Simon? I haven’t read it yet so I can’t tell how they’ll compare. Supposedly, it won a “Special Award” from the Mystery Writers of America. It was published by Pocket Books (80309) in PB but was published previously (1975) by Straight Arrow books. (Never heard of ‘em.) The author was also responsible for “The Big Fix”. Was that the one made into that forgettable Richard Dreyfuss film? Anyhow, this deals with PI Moses Wine, a “hip, pot-smoking shamus”. The cover art (by Sol Korby) depicts a Seventies-looking dud in the foreground smoking either a cigarette or a perfectly rolled joint. A bikini-clad brunette lounges on a pap-san chair in the background. Weird.

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