<<Won't argue with the comments on women, except to say
that I think Crais is reaching for character depth, and to my
mind has succeeded, at least in Sunset Express and LA
Requiem. I'm saying this in the context of rather low
expectations of treatment of women in hardboiled fiction--
something we've discussed before. Among the authors I'm most
familiar with, Constantine sets the standard--just read The
Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes, and was really turned
around.>>
You mean K.C.C. sets the standard for a good treatment or
that his novel is exemplary of a bad treatment? It isn't
clear from your last sentence.
Regards,
MrT
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