--- Michael Robison <
zspider@gte.net> wrote:
> turns out there are 13 different types of
mystery.
> i'm sorry to say that
> hardboiled is not one of them.
> http://www.writing-world.com/mystery/murder02.html
I know Miker was being sarcastic when he sent this in, but
this article does point to the basic silliness of genre
classifications. The author includes "private eye" as a genre
and seems to mean "hard-boiled" by that title, but includes
Matt Scudder as one of the examples of the form. Matt
Scudder, as we all know, is a licensed PI in only one or two
books of the series. If you're going to try to draw genre
lines, you have to draw them, darn it, or don't bother.
I vote for don't bother.
Incidentally, the article also mentions noir as one of the
thirteen. As we have often discussed on this list, it's hard
to know the difference between that and hard-boiled.
Actually, let me rephrase that: I think it's relatively to
know the difference, but exceedingly difficult to put it into
words.
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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