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Article: Murder Most Mordant;Russell Greenan's Deft `Can of Worms'
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- The Washington Post
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- August 10, 1987
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A CAN OF WORMS
By Russell Greenan
Bantam. 214 pp. Paperback, $3.50
There is something wrong with a world in which Russell Greenan
is not a household name. Or at least one would wish that the
originality he consistently displays in his novels would be rewarded
by more fanfare when they do come out.
Beginning with "It Happened in Boston" in 1968, a Greenan cult
formed. I didn't stumble upon it until a few years later when the
perverse pleasures of the irresistibly titled "The Secret Life of
Algernon Pendleton" sent me in search of any other Greenans
available.
Now, not everyone will thrill to the story of a madman (the
titular Pendleton) and his unlikely partner in crime-a talking china ...