Mario Taboada
> I can envision a hardboiled novel *with* inspectors
that
> takes place in a *manor* and has upper-class
protagonists.
> To me, it all depends on what the author does with
these
> elements.
Something like O'Hara's APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA? Doesn't take
the "formula elements" to make a great hardboiled, does it?
Earl Thompson's GARDEN OF SAND is one of the greatest, too,
and it doesn't need any detective at all.
miker
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