Jim wrote:
>Kevin Smith can give you better info on the third.
It
>features a nun (or maybe a former nun) who's
a
>licensed PI.
That would be the Harry Garnish and Sister Bridget O'Toole
series by Frank Mc Connell (or something like that), a sort
of at times cozyish spin on A.A. Fair's Donald Lam and
Bertha.
Gee, I go away for a few days, and the list goes nuts!
>There were a series of PI novels produced for
the
>Evangelical Christian market that touted themselves
as
>being in the "tradition of Hammett, Chandler,
and
>Macdonald." Unfortunately, I can't remember the
name
>of the writer. They're the only
honest-to-God
>contemporary PI novels I've ever seen in this
market.
>If you're really interested, I'll try to find
out.
Well, I'm really interested, Jim. You know where to find
me...
Oh, and a few unrelated thoughts:
Brian wrote:
>I'd say James Bond was as hard-boiled as an
Englishman can get.
Shhh... Brian, you're embarrassing yourself.
And speaking of colloquial speech...
> Spenser says to Hawk (I don't
> > remember why): "I just read a book by a guy
named
> > Fielding that says that guys like us are
repressing
> > homo-erotic tendencies." Hawk: "Doin' a damn
good
> > job of it, too."
Anyway, hard-boiled is about attitude. You either have it or
you don't. And Jim's definition still comes way closer than
anything any of his detractors have managed to cobble
together. In fact, Jim's definition, concise, unyielding,
uncompromising and to the point, is sort of hard-boiled in
its own right. Which may be the point.
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