hello all,
i'm fairly new here but enjoying all your posts!
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rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002
9:02 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS:
Chandler-Browne-Latimer-Canada
On Chandler and Canada. I
> thought that he traveled from California to Canada
to enlist in the
Canadian
> military out of allegiance to England, but that he
never lived long in
Canada
> and did not go to school there. Doug
a chandler biography i read some years ago mentioned that
chandler was living in california when WWI broke out. wanting
to answer the call for england, he travelled up the west
coast to victoria, BC (my hometown!) to enlist in the
canadian army. this really jumped out at me when i read it
because of the connection to victoria. also seem to recall
reading about an adaptation of "playback" (for film?), that
included a speedboat chase set in the strait of juan de fuca,
between victoria and port angeles, WA.
just a bit of intro: i've been reading/viewing and
discovering hb/noir books & films for about ten years.
i'm a paperback collector as well. most recent read in this
vein was william p. mcgivern's "rogue cop", part of an
omnibus that includes "the seven file" and "the darkest
hour". also on the varied TBR pile is raoul whitfield "death
in a bowl" (actually a re-read)...currently reading andrew
garcia "tough trip through paradise", a first person montana
1878 memoir in a sort of perpetual dry-humoured style that
includes plenty of hb quotient. at the moment my noir/hb
sense is more with the "noir western" idea than the inner
city PI.
it's great to discover a list with so many knowledgeable
folks. thanks for all your ideas and inspiration!
-k.j. smith
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