Anthony Dauer wrote:
>Yeah, noir is the atmosphere while hardboiled is a
character trait or
>personality ...
I like that. However, I think a noir novel can contain no
hardboiled characters. I'm not sure how hardboiled the
characters of The Postman Always Rings Twice are, for
example. A bit too insecure to be truly hardboiled. And too
willing to pull the wool over their eyes.
Charlie Williams.
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