I think most of Chandler's printed comments about Hemingway
were positive. Though there's one I vaguely recall that ends
with ". . . and I'm too clumsy with a shotgun to lead the
good life." Initially I mistakenly thought Chandler had
written that after Hemingway's death and it struck me as
pretty cold. Judging by Faulkner's bookshelves, he was a
mystery fan, though not necessarily hardboiled mysteries. Had
a lot of Nero Wolfe titles. He wrote a half-dozen mystery
short stories about a Mississippi county attorney named Gavin
Stevens who definitely resembles James Lee Burke's Texas
lawyer Billy Bob Holland. They're collected in the book,
"Knight's Gambit." Dick Lochte
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