Mark Blumenthal (blumenidiot@21stcentury.net)
Sat, 6 Nov 1999 20:31:22 -0600
Juri complains,
I think it's not funny anymore if a PI has problems
paying his bills
> and stuff. Stuart M. Kaminsky's novels about Toby
Peters are larded with
> Peters's fussying about the dirty clothes and unpaid
bills and
> dyspepsia. What's the point?
>
Juri,
A lot of the fuss with bills and such also bothers me about
the Peters' novels, but I realize they are more than hard
boiled novels. They are historicals and Kaminsky feels he has
to put all these details to establish his books are taking
place in the late 1930's and 40's LA. Writing about the same
time and place as did Chandler, his schlemiel of a
protagonist may give us a revisionist view of Marlowe. Not
all private eyes bravely walk the mean streets alone. Some
fearfully stumble and take help wherever they can get it.
Mark
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