--- Michael Robison <
zspider@gte.net> wrote:
> nancy drew, eh? well i never read a one of
them,
> but i paid my proper dues
> with the hardy boys. any of you others been
down
> that street?
Actually, I was kidding about Nancy Drew, but I did read a
lot of them as a kid. (There's been a fair amount of interest
in Nancy and similar series books in academia lately, though,
so I may go back and read a few in hopes of finding an essay
topic.) I'm not sure how it happened that I got involved with
that series and the Hardy Boys, but it happened, and I think
I read a Hardy Boys novel or two but for some reason I liked
Nancy Better, and read practically everything in the
series.
Perhaps that explains my current interest in hard-boiled
detective fiction. Maybe I'm compensating.
As for hard-boiled femme fatales, we would be remiss not to
mention the woman from DOUBLE INDEMNITY...but I'm going to be
remiss because I can't think of it off the top of my head. Or
if you want to talk movies, Nicole Kidman also did a pretty
good job playing one in MALICE with Alec Baldwin and Bill
Pullman--I haven't seen the film in a few years but I
remember it as a pretty good piece of noir. Anyone know if it
was adapted from a novel?
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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