> A good example is Billie Sue Mosiman, an
excellent
> hardboiled voice producing a very different type of
story,
> a story that per se would not necessarily catch the
eye of
> the hardboiled fan. Her fiction is not marketed
as
> hardboiled, nor does it indulge in the cliché³ of
the
> subgenre, but in spirit it's hardboiled.
I thought the early work of Jean Rhys gave us another
hard-boiled voice, not marketed thus and not typical and not
a crime writer, but the worldview of the leading characters
seemed to echo Cain's and Hammett's work (Rhys and the HB
guys were near-contemporaries, though I doubt they were
reading each other, but maybe they were).
So, yeah, you find the HB voice in many places, some you
wouldn't expect.
Neil Smith
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