Re: RARA-AVIS: Gary Phillips' new Monk

Diane Trap (trap@rhett.libs.uga.edu)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 09:38:08 -0400 (EDT) > On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Mari Hall wrote:
>
> : I know this is supposed to be "hard boiled", but what is hard boiled
> : if not a PI novel??
>
> Lots of stuff. There are tons of private investigator stories out
> there that haven't spent one second in the boiler. Wimps.

And plenty of softy criminals, too...they would be known as
three-minute yeggs.

-----Diane Trap
trap@rhett.libs.uga.edu

> Bill

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