Considering that Richard Prather, Mickey Spillane, and John
D. MacDonald
- three very hardboiled authors - sold a combined total of
about 200
million books, one would have to conclude that very large
sectors of the
public are or were hardboiled... I don't have a theory except
that
mysteries, including hardboiled ones, provide some sort of
escapism for
a lot of people. The hardboiled experience may have very
little to do
with the actual reader. It seems that the overwhelming
majority of fans
of the hardboiled genre are males, although I don't know
what
correlation this has with anything.
Regards,
MT
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