Yes, Doolittle is an excellent writer. Others in the same
league who aren't sufficiently well known are Max Byrd, Roger
Simon and Jonathan Valin. Byrd hasn't published for a long
time, and Simon and Valin for quite a while, as far as I
know. T. Jefferson Parker is doing all right, taking his time
to write massive novels which no longer fit the consumer
model of mystery fiction. That they are great is consolation
for us, though probably not for his bank account.
It may be time to coin the "lost male generation" or
something like that. They lost out to the female boom of the
eighties and part of the nineties. They were squeezed out
that boom and then the emergence of Ellroyism and the new
wave of postnoir.
Best,
MrT
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