Hi,
I picked up one of S.S. Van Dine's Philo Vance mysteries
tonight, because that series has a lot of footnotes in it,
and I like novels with footnotes
(I have a list on my web site of the ones I know about, if
anyone's interested). On the back cover, it says, "S.S. Van
Dine was the forerunner of the modern hard-boiled school of
mystery novelists." I've never heard this claim before. Is
there anything in it, or is it just a bunch of malarkey? I
always figured Vance was in the fey Ellery Queen vein
(although Inspector Queen is a hard case).
Bill
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