::On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, `ki wrote:
::
::: What does pro-cozy mean? Sorry, I just don't know. And
when I
::: don't know, I ask. :p
::
::Cozies are the opposite of hardboiled. The typical old cozy
would
::have the vicar finding a body in his sitting room; some
poor chap had
::been served poisoned tea. There are clues: a sewing needle,
a train
::ticket, a spot of ink on a homburg, and the fact that the
cat didn't
::shed fur. Since murders happen every week in this small
town, and
::everybody hasn't fled, and they're still only protected by
an
::incompetent police inspector and his bungling yet lovable
uniformed
::constable, they call on the decrepit old thing who always
solves their
::murders. It's all wrapped up nicely at the end when the
amateur
::detective gathers everyone in one room and lays it all out.
The
::murderer doesn't make a run for it, or shoot anyone, just
nods sadly
::and gives up.
Ahhh, "Murder, She Wrote". Never could understand why people
like those types.
They are all the same. *confusion*
::This list, by the way, is a no-cozy zone, in case you
didn't know. If
::you've grown addicted to them and want to get the monkey
off your
::back, one each of Hammett, Chandler, Spillane, Thompson,
Willeford,
::Ellroy and Cain should do it.
Nope, never liked 'em. But I will take your recommendations
seriously!
Thank you!
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