At 08:16 PM 5/19/00 -0400, Doug Greene wrote:
>
>
>Whatever Bill Pronzini may be, he's certainly not a
"marginal" author. But
>setting that aside, Bill's point is that the genuine
hardboiled story was
>closely connected with a time and place, and those
are gone.
>
>He may be wrong: I rather think he _is_ wrong--but
please don't call him
Permit _me _ to be wrong....I think Bill
Pronzini, a friend to many on this list, is a very poor and
childish writer. I remember him well from the weakest days of
Ellery Queen Mystery Mag.
James
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