> As long as you asked, my opinion is the Frank is
better than Henry.
> Henry was full of himself, and made his character
that way as well.
> Remember, Henry's detective is so sophisticated that
he calls himself a
> "private richard."
Thanks for the info. I've only read Frank and Henry Kane in
French years
ago, so the 'private richard' bit escaped me, along with
other stylistic
points lost in the translation. I now read all English
writers in English
(still have to learn Spanish and Italian !), and the
differences between
can be mindboggling, especially in the case of mysteries who
weren't
always very faithfully translated.
It can be explained by the difference of talent between
translators, and
the space limitations imposed by the French PB publishers,
which often
led to some abridged versions...
> As to the other long forgotten from the same period,
I would like to
> nominate Wade Miller, Bart Spicer and Norbert
Davis.
Are Wade Miller really forgotten ? If so, it's very sad and
this list
should remedy to it asap ! Max Thursday is IMHO one of the
ten all-time
great PIs, and their other books are also quite good.
Who is Bart Spicer ?
Laurent
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Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon,
from Hardboiled by P. Thompson & S. Usukawa.
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