Anthony Dauer wrote:
>The easily offended should stick with cozies anyway
... no use offending
>their delicate sensibilities with reality.
;)
I realize this was tongue-in cheek, but isn't this one of the
myths of the hard-boiled, that it's more realistic than other
forms of crime writing? Since when did a lone detective solve
anything, for example? As a literary form the hard-boiled
gives a subjective impression of reality - for commercial
reasons (among others) hard-boiled writers perpetuate a
popular
(and not necessarily accurate) view of reality in order to
sell more books. It's the sensibility we're buying into, not
the reportage. If I want hard-boiled reality, I'll go for a
walk along Liverpool docks at night - but I don't want it
that badly, so I'll stick to Horace McCoy.
Cheers Chris
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