While on sabbatical from the list, I ran into the archives in
a web search, got curious about voting for one's favorite
characters, so here are mine:
*Parker (Richard Stark)
*Mario Balzic (K.C. Constantine)
*The mad Russian, Myushkis (Bottom Liner Blues, by K.C.
Constantine)
*Dudley Smith (James Ellroy)
*Buzz Meeks (James Ellroy)
*Stick (Elmore Leonard)
*Hoke Mosely (Charles Willeford)
*The dotty old guy (in Sideswipe, by Charles Willeford)
*Philip Marlowe (Raymond Chandler)
*Clete Purcell (James Lee Burke)
*Socrates Fortlow (Walter Mosley)
*Mouse (Walter Mosley)
*Easy Rawlins (Walter Mosley)
*Mofass (Walter Mosley)
*Shell Scott (Richard Prather)
*Dan Kearny of DKA (Joe Gores)
*Protagonist of Goodbye Pops (Gores's masterpiece of a short
story)
*Max Latin (Norbert Davis)
*Doan & Carstairs (Norbert Davis)
*Paul Pine (Howard Browne)
*The Continental Op (Dashiell Hammett)
*Yana Poteet, protagonist of Cons, Scams and Grifts (Joe
Gores)
*Protagonist of The Girl with the Long Green Heart
(Lawrence Block)
*Tiny Bulcher (Donald Westlake)
*Sheriff Dan Rhodes (Bill Crider)
*Maigret (Georges Simenon)
And this is all for now. After almost a year of reading
nothing but Faulkner (I had to do it, even if did spoil my
prose forever, I had to do it), I'm back with hardboiled
fiction, reading some Aarons, some Prather, a couple of old
collections of short stories, and Ross Macdonald. The
Barbarous Coast seems a lot better than I remembered. I'm
never done with this writer, the most mysterious of
all...
Regards,
MrT
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