Sorry, if I have offended any professor on this list, I apologize. It came to my mind after my previous post that there are several professors on this list. There are professors and there are professors. I know several professors who understand mystery fiction in general, such as Mike Nevins, Bill Crider, Peter Robinson, and Doug Greene. And there are English professors who don't. Yes, I understood every word of the definition by these editors, too, but this entry is still unsatisfactory, academic or not. Sorry again. I know, I know, hardboiled guys don't apologize. Jiro Kimura ********************************************* Jiro Kimura Kanazawa, JAPAN e-mail: jkimura@nsknet.or.jp The Gumshoe Site (http://www.nsknet.or.jp/~jkimura/) ********************************************* - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca