At 10:34 AM 7/19/00 -0400, Bill Hagen wrote:
>
>On another note, I was surprised to learn in the same
study that Chandler
and
>Gardner apparently had a mutual admiration throughout
their careers. I mean
>everyone knows the story of how Chandler practiced
writing a Gardner story
from
>memory to learn how such stories were constructed and
his tricks of style,
but
>I didn't know that Chandler continued reading and
liking the Perry Masons.
>
>Perhaps this is a case of a writer's reading more
widely than his fans?
Chandler said that he considered ESG
to be a close friend. This from a guy who didn't make friends
so easy. May explain some of it.
On the other hand....and keep in mind
it's been years since I read any of the books, although I
still have a ton of them....weren't the early Perry Mason
books pretty much straight hardboiled? My impression was the
series started out tough and then got domesticated as they
reached their wider audience.
Certainly ESG could and did write
fine HB stuff. And I agree that we should probably talk about
his stuff sometime. After all, he is the only Black Mask
author who probably has outsold Chandler and Hammett put
together.
James
James Michael Rogers
jetan@ionet.net
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