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Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: RARA-AVIS Digest V1 #53
William Denton wrote:
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> On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Alexander Cooley Ives wrote:
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> : Have any of you read any of Graham Greene's noirish entertaiments?
>
> Such as what? _Brighton Rock_? Here's one for the noir/hardboiled
> arguments. I can't remember it too well, but it does strike me as
> noirish. But is it hardboiled? What else is there by Greene in this
> vein?
>
> Bill
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>From the ones I have read, how about STAMBOUL TRAIN (also called ORIENT
EXPRESS), A GUN FOR SALE (also called THIS GUN FOR HIRE), THE
CONFIDENTIAL AGENT, THE MINISTRY OF FEAR, THE THIRD MAN, THE QUIET
AMERICAN. I'd say all these are in the hard-boiled vein, perhaps noir,
too, as I understand it (though books written in the 1930s might be too
early for noir).
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