Re Dick and Rene's comments below:
> >From: "Rene Ribic" <
rribic@optusnet.com.au>
>
> >I was find it interesting to see who thought
what
> about whom with the
> >old writer guys like Browne & Spillane. It
appears
> that Spillane was a
> >fan of Browne's. That other seminal PI
writer,
> Chandler had nowhere
> near
> >as high an opinion of him.
>
> I know that Chandler looked down on all the
writers
> who were obviously
> influenced by him. He was particularly critical
of
> Ross Macdonald,
> probably because he seemed to offer the
biggest
> challenge. But my fading
> memory tells me that in one of his letters
Chandler
> singled out Browne
> and Roy Huggins for doing the best jobs of
imitating
> his style. I also
> seem to recall that he and Browne were La
Jolla
> neighbors, drank
> together and were as friendly as Chandler was to
any
> competitor. Was
> there a letter critical of Browne that I
missed?
According to Browne (and he may have had several versions of
this story as well), he got along with Chandler because the
first time he met him he said something along the lines of,
"I've been making great money imitating you for years."
Chandler supposedly was happy to hear someone actually admit
the debt.
JIM DOHERTY
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