Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: The Reading List, and some other blather...

Mari Hall (found.dead.in.texas@airmail.net)
Fri, 10 Apr 1998 08:48:52 -0500 Reed Andrus wrote:
>
> Kevin Smith wrote:
> >
> > Well, if we're voting, I sorta like A Long Reach or Solomon's Vineyard or
> > Freaky Deaky. Maybe Hollywood Noctourne.
> >
> > As for not reading A Long Reach because of some recent events, well, not
> > knowing offhand what happened in Arizona, I can guess that some bounty
> > hunters killed someone, probably innocent bystanders. But this shouldn't
> > deter us from reading about bounty hunters. I realize you're from Arizona,
> > Reed, and this story may hit close to the bone, but if we let reality
> > intrude on what topics we read about in fiction, we won't have much left to
> > read. If this was the criteria, we couldn't read books about cops,
> > soldiers, private detectives, disgruntled employees or even school
> > children. And, to tell the truth, some well-armed American mowing down some
> > innocent (or not so innocent) bystanders is no longer a big international
> > news story. It happens too often. Sorry.
>
> > New Address! -> mailto:kvnsmith@colba.net
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>
> Actually, I wasn't living in Arizona when the bounty hunters ran amok,
> but the incident received wide attention in California -- just another
> nail in that state's coffin! My comment was questioning the political
> correctness of bounty hunters as protagonists in noir fiction -- if the
> character placement is outside of modern day, I agree with the
> historicity factor cited by Gary Niebuhr; if the novel is set in modern
> times, it could show a disregard for public sentiment.
>
> ... Reed Andrus
> Phoenix, AZ (rising)
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Well, if you ever watched the "syndicated" show THE BOUNTY HUNTERS you
know that these guys are not regulated by -any- state; they are
regulated by the Feds (and sort-a like US Marshalls (who have been
reduced to serving warrants). They are protected from kidnap laws
because they only go after -felonys- and usually they are simply folks
who missed a court date, or possibly had no lawyer to "straighten things
out". In Texas courts, we can get those "bond forfeitures" set aside
(given certain factors) so we can get the case back on track. Of course,
my running buddy Paul Youngblood worked his way through college as a
"recovery agent" for a bonding company, so he's been there and done
that.

-- 
whose DOROTHYL nom is Kate Warne the ex-Pinkerton in
The Woman With the Rose Tattoo by Mari Hall
See y'all at Bouchercon 29 in Philly Oct.1-4
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