At 08:43 PM 4/18/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Folks, HB is WRITING and nothing but! Let's not let
this list turn into
>DorothyL with an attitude.
>
>I don't know how to get the jazz back, but try this:
What's the best HB book
>ever written where a crime is NOT the central plot
device? (Doesn't mean
>there can't be a crime, just that it's
peripheral.)
>
>My own choice (and let's not confuse the issue with a
lot of that HB/noir
>definition horseshit) would be Douglas Fairbairn's
STREET 8.
>
I agree with your
first comment.
As to the second,
does _Day Of The Locust_ cut it as HB? I think so, and I
would certainly place it's name in nomination. I haven't
tried the Fairbairn.
James
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