: Yeah, but he said -basically- that he wrote "Marlowe with
baggage";
: I suppose Bosch's search for his mother's killer or mother
or
: whatever (that @#$% backstory). I don't think it was
"thinking" so
: much as the "baggage".
This "baggage" they carry around seems to be cropping up a
lot in
recent books. I read Dennis Lehane's two novels, which are
kind of
modern hardboiled things, I think, and his lead character is
haunted
by memories of his father and so on. I know I've seen it
elsewhere,
too. I think it's an overused device.
Bill
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