Colin,
Re your comment below:
> For what it's worth I don't really think of
James
> Bond as hard-boiled (cue lengthy debate),
mainly
> because for me he rests firmly in the spy
genre.
It's not his being a spy that puts him out of the hard-boiled
designation. Otherwise Matt Helm and Tiger Mann would be
disqualified. It's his "elegant British gentleman"
demeanor.
> I would sa!
> y definitely entertaining but neither really
hard
> boiled nor noir - boys own adventures.
Here you've got something! I'm willing to bet that Fleming's
biggest influence was neither Hammett nor Chandler, but Sax
Rohmer.
JIM DOHERTY
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