Tom Pace's Fisherman's Luck is set in Boynton, Afternoon of a
Loser in =
Fort Pierce, and a third one in Sebring. In Charles
Willeford's The =
Burnt Orange Heresy, the painter Debierue lived out on Range
Line Road, =
west of Lake Worth, between Lake Worth and Lantana. The
killer lived on =
Palm Beach. Hoke Moseley lived on Singer Island in
Sideswipe.
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From: Fred Willard[SMTP:rainwill@mindspring.com]
Sent: Friday, October 10, 1997 12:15 AM
To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
Subject: RARA-AVIS: unlikely places
> Fred suggests...
> =20
> >Maybe we should have a contest: Why the place I
live is a great=20
> >location for hard-boiled fiction. The loser will
be forced to =
write a=20
> >hard-boiled novel.
> =20
> My home town is Toronto.
> Need I say more!
> With nicknames like "Toronto the Good" or "Hogtown on
the Don" =
this=20
> is hardly the setting for a successful hard-boiled
novel. An =
episode=20
> of "Due South" or "Northern Exposure"
maybe.
> I protest an unfair disadvantage!
> =20
> R.W. Gough
I can't resist suggesting a Toronto / western / hard-boiled
angle=20
by changing the title to Hoedown on the Don.
But seriously now folks... A thought occurred to me when I
was=20
reading this post that it would be interesting if people
could think=20
of some seemingly unlikely locations that have actually
appeared in=20
hard-boiled literature.
Fred
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Down on Ponce by Fred Willard
fwillard@mindspring.com
http://fwillard.home.mindspring.com/
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