Just one point, Juri. While early Greenleaf (probably the
ones you read) certainly echoed the work of Ross Macdonald),
the series soon moved far beyond mere "imitation." Sort of
the way Macdonald himself moved beyond the Chandler influence
of his early work.
Oh, and as reported on another list by a friend of mine,
crime-writer L.R. Wright, who won an Edgar for The Suspect,
has died. She may not have been read by many on this list,
since her work wasn't hard-boiled, but it was rarely ever
soft, either. According to The Globe and Mail, before she
died in hospital on Sunday after a long battle with breast
cancers she provided her family with her own short obituary
statement:
''She died, and the cancer died with her. It was a
draw.''
Now that's hard. But then, most of her books, despite their
cozyish trappings, had an edge to them, and refused to play
nice. Canada and crime-writing have just lost a good
one.
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