Re: RARA-AVIS: Top 100 Hard-Boiled Characters

From: Thomas Bauduret ( suspiria@club-internet.fr)
Date: 21 Mar 2002


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> I'd also like to suggest a rule. While the nominated
> characters don't have to be series characters, or even
> heroes, I think they should be MAIN characters.
> Supporting characters are subjects for another poll.
>
Good point. Unless of course, they are close enough (Why mention Scherlock Holmes and not watson ?) Besides, well, some characters in Tom Waits and Nick Cave's songs (Like Cave's "O'Malley's bar" or "Stagger Lee") are pretty much hardboiled, but we won't go so far, won't we ? :)

I definitely second Ed Coffin and Gravedigger Jones, Hannibal Lecter ‹ but adds the detective from Red Dragon, whose name eludes me at the moment, AND Clarisse Sterling, one of the strongest character in, let's say, crime fiction in general. But my top-number-one-el-besto remains Matt Scudder.

AndŠ I think nobody mentioned Carlotta Carslyle, from Linda Barne's series ?

T.

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