You can deliver the Mark Sullivan award, presumably a flippin
great bag full of cash, to my London address - Department of
Unexplained Deaths, The Factory, Poland Street etc etc. Nice
to see the fantastic Derek Raymond get in anyway. I think I
might have changed my vote for V from V for Vendetta by Alan
Moore to Rorsach had I seen those votes go in, but I think V
is more authentically hard boiled than all that (not very)
Super Hero stuff, both truly marvellous works tho. My other
no shows were the trio from Robbers by Cook, brilliantly
written characters - especially in my opinion Della, I would
love to hear how women reacted to her portrayal by a male
author, I thought she came across as strong, resourceful, not
fatale at all - maybe even a new archetype - the femme vitale
(gawd this coffee is strong!). And Raven from This Gun For
Hire, one of my favourite books and very very noir in a
Greeneland, washed out grey sort of way, perhaps I should
have voted for Pinky, I couldn't really vote for Harry Lime
because I have only seen the film - is he the only short
story character in there, surely the briefest fictional life
of anyone in the hundred?. Dora !
Suarez I suppose would never have got in, being dead
and all. I await my prize with interest. Lovely list and I
have a lot of reading to do! Colin PS reading Pimp by Iceberg
Slim at the moment and most excellent it is too, in a
disgusting way, very revealling.
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