James Rogers (jetan@ionet.net)
Sat, 27 Nov 1999 10:39:43 -0600
At 05:51 AM 11/27/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>
>
>> I am hard pressed to think of any successful
writers
>> who are writing in a real HB style.
The
>> only one I can think of in recent memory is "The
Big
>> Enchilada" by L.A. Morse. It was
>> originally published in 1981 and about every
ten
>> years it enjoys a reprint. Currently it
is
>> out of print and at present is the closest work
I
>> can think of in tune with the genre as
I
>> perceive it.
>
>Well, there's also Andrew Vachss
It's
funny, but I can't really consider Vachss hardboiled for the
same reasons some folks just applied against Ian Fleming. The
Vachss thingies seem like Doc Savage stuff to me....not that
there's anything wrong with that, but Hammett or Chandler it
ain't.
James
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