The thing to remember is that the list was of the best
characters from hard-boiled crime fiction, not necessarily
the best characters who were themselves hard-boiled. I don't
think Casper Gutman, for example, could be described as a
hard-boiled, but the novel he appears in, THE MALTESE FALCON,
is certainly a hard-boiled novel, and Gutman is certainly a
marvelous character, so it was appropriate for him to be have
been nominated, and (if he won a place, which, off-hand, I
can't remember) to have been placed on the final list.
Angie's being on the list isn't necessarily a a reflection of
her own hard-boiledness. It's a reflection of the fact that
people thinks she's a great character and that they also
think that the books she appears in are hard-boiled.
That said, Angie strikes me as colloquial, and, ultimately,
as pretty damned tough. As far as I'm concerned, that makes
her hard-boiled.
JIM DOHERTY
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