On 21 October 2002, Anders Engwall (EAB) wrote:
: Robert Martin's Jim Bennett, Cleveland manager for
: an agency with its headquarters in New York. Sounds
: like a large agency to me.
And he's married, too. Interesting. Maybe in the '30s the
writers who wanted to use a big nation-wide organization
wrote tough-guy G-man stories. The FBI had gadgets,
fingerprint records, gangsters to bust, and lots of real-life
press. Then you get into the war, then the influence of film
noir, then fifties paranoia, and the pattern was set and
loners ruled. The few detectives that do work for agencies
are middle-class and settled. The Continental Op River pretty
much dried up.
Bill
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