Y'know, Mari, assigning readership based on gender just puts
my
knickers in a twist. I would give Christie (happily--can't
stand her)
to those people who favor tight plotting (like
written-from-an
-outline tight), knotty problems (like locked room
mysteries), and tidy
endings--her books have the emotional punch of the daily
crossword.
Writers like Chandler and Ellroy and Hammett feature
freewheeling
storytelling and unhealthy overloads of moral ambiguities,
and yes,
characters, characters, characters, from the creepy
yellow-eyed
Sam Spade to the paladinesque Marlowe to Ellroy's cast of
thousands.
I'd flounder among generalities some more but I have to go
back to
work now. More later, maybe.
-----Diane Trap
trap@rhett.libs.uga.edu
> --
> >From Mari Hall
Found.Dead.In.Texas@airmail.net
> 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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