Crias has pushed his way past Spenser to find his own more
original voice and it took him 7 books...
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, a.n.smith wrote:
>
> >I'm just curious about "the
> > imitator" and whether such a figure can ever
produce
> > good work.
>
> Weren't Ross Macdonald's early novels self-confessed
Chandler knock-offs (or
> modeled closely on the style, I should say)? He went
on to find a unique
> voice. Something different, but it has put him in
the upper rank of
> hard-boiled writers, too. Yeah, some imitators are
able to push past that
> and come into their own later. NOw I'll have to go
think of more than one
> name....
>
> Neil Smith
>
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