Mario Taboada (matrxtech@yahoo.com)
Sun, 28 Nov 1999 09:24:26 -0800 (PST)
Martha:
<<The third writer is William Hoffman, who wrote
Tidewater Blood. It's about the black-sheep son if a wealthy
family who has to prove himself innocent of their murder. A
spare, unsettling whodunnit with intriguing and haunting
'country' settings which also serve as thematic and symbolic
elements to the story.>>
This is very, very good hardboiled. When you really get down
to it, there are more hardboiled writers than one would
suspect. Most of them are not promoted as much as their cozy,
romance, horror, and sensitive (!) colleagues, but they are
there. Admittedly, it can be hard to find out about them, and
to find their books. Another reason why this list is
important.
Speaking of relatively unknown hardboiled writers, I am about
to start reading Max Martinez, after a hell of a busy fall
that kept me off the stuff. I'll post some comments when I
finish. To get back in the groove, I reread Chester Himes's
_All Shot Up_, which was just as wonderful as I remembered
it.
Regards,
===== Mario Taboada
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