Al wrote:
> With regard to the others: "The Big Clock" isn't
noir/hardboiled
> and it defeats me what it's doing in this
list.
Although I didn't think the book was that bad, it doesn't
really hold-up to the other classic novels in the Library of
America Noir omnibus ed's, for example. I think THE BIG CLOCK
is sort of border-line noir but perhaps it's main claim to
noir-status is the well known film noir movie version,
starring Ray Milland. I suspect a handful of mystery novels
have come to be viewed as noir because of noir film versions
& this is probably one of them.
Rene
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