I'll say hello too. I'll hold the fighting talk until I've
been around a bit longer (except perhaps to mention that I
think a lot of of Paretski, Grafton and Muller), and just say
that I'm a repentant-academic writer of a rather cosy series
of murder mysteries with a woman amateur detective; the five
written to date have dealt with stalking, religious
fanaticism, date-rape, revenge, and the arrogance of
parental/family pressure. As I say, these are cosies.
As for academic studies, well -- as Bill Hagen is presumably
aware, the pressure to publish does strange things to the
youthful academic mind
(and the older one, too). But I don't know the book, and
would rather read at least part of it before I jump to
conclusions. But of course social perspectives have changed,
and the rules of the game for hard-boiled novels, with them.
It makes about as much sense to try to write an imitation
Chandler in May 2000 as to write an imitation Agatha
Christie.
I'm part-way through reading Val McDermid's "Suitable Job for
a Woman", which is not an academic study and, to my mind,
full of interesting stuff.
Marianne Macdonald
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